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Schools Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen

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Know where to find food during the summer In the essay “School’s Out for Summer” Anna Quindlen is trying to let people know about all the children who go hungry during the summer. She states that some kids only get a good lunch when school is in session. Quindlen says that in 1999 there was an estimated twelve million children hungry or on the risk of hunger. But by 2000 that number rose by 20%. Some parents push their kids to go to summer school activities so they can get one good meal a day. Many of the kids parents have minimum wage jobs, on food stamps, or are denied food stamps. The parents are working and still aren’t making enough to support their kids. While also trying to get the food stamps but get denied because of new

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