Food benefits are decreasing for millions of Californians. Can two new proposals help?

By Matthew Miranda

Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, has authored SB 348 to provide an additional $80 in food benefits per month to students during the summer. The bill would also limit school meals to 25 grams of added sugar per day.

“We want to do our best to eliminate food insecurity and certainly for children,” Skinner said. “In the summertime, kids are still learning and very often they’re in different kinds of programs, but your ability to learn and thrive is seriously impacted if you’re hungry.”

Read more at the Sacramento Bee.