
CMs Dromm, Kallos, & King, Public Advocate James, & advocates (photo: @Lunch4Learning)
“All I know is that when I would tell him that I’m hungry, he would say that he doesn’t have money to buy me something to eat,” says 17-year-old Althea of growing up with her father. She describes getting food at her house as a “gamble,” adding, “Sometimes the school lunch was the only meal I would eat for the entire day.”
For many young people in New York City, like Althea, the
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