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Students from struggling economic backgrounds sent home with food for the weekend have improved test scores, study finds

  • Written by Michael Kurtz, Associate Professor of Economics, Lycoming College
imageIn the United States, at least 6 million children live in a household where at least one person is food insecure. Anna-Rose Gassot/AFP via Getty Images

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