Bap, bap ba ba bap â bap bap. Around 1 p.m. on a recent Thursday afternoon, 90-year-old Sophia Vann heard a knock on her front door. Standing on the steps of the longtime Gary residentâs Miller home was a very familiar face: former Gary Mayor Jerome Prince, holding a lunch bag filled with food. This […]
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âA Giant Leap Backwardsâ: Indiana Opts Out of Summer Program for Hungry Schoolchildren
This story was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. Last summer, hundreds of thousands of Hoosier families who qualify for food benefits and reduced-price school meals got a summertime boost: $120 per child monthly for food while schools were closed. But relief for those 669,000 children may only have been a one-time blip. Indiana […]