AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Both Governors Brian Kemp and Henry McMaster have opted their respective states out of a federal program designed to help provide food to kids who won’t have access to school lunches during the summer.
“In today’s society, 40 dollars is big. Right now, you can’t even go to the grocery store and get one pack of meat under 20 dollars. So, you imagine if you have a family of six and five kids and those extra 40 dollars help to buy extra milk or bread and cereal, and them not having that now is definitely going to be traumatic…,” Masters Table Soup Kitchen, Kitchen Manager Ladonna Doleman said.
That 40-dollars she’s referring to is the amount a federal U-S-D-A program would have provided eligible kids per month during the summer. But the governors of both Georgia and South Carolina have opted out of the program, saying it was left over from when kids had to learn remotely during the COVID -19 lockdowns. The say there are other programs in place to help feed those children.