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School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen

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School’s Out for Summer

Why is it that many families struggle with buying food and feeding their children? Is it because of how much money a person of that family is making? Author Anna Quindlen tries to prove a point explaining how many families suffer from hunger due to minimum wage and summer vacation.

From the beginning, she explains how most children are left with so little food over the summer and are not able to eat as much as they could during school or over the summer lunch programs. This statement will be ineffective in persuading others reading this because some children and or adults are given the opportunity to eat more over the summer. One could say they do not receive as much food as they’d like but many others can say

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