As gas and food prices rise in the United States, some families are worried about having to pay for something else in the fall: lunch for their children at school.For at least the last two school years, many parents did not have to worry about preparing or buying their school-aged children lunch.That is because emergency government funding during the early part of the coronavirus pandemic included food aid for children.The aid covered lunch for children during the school year and during the summer for many families.But the free lunch funding is set to end in several states before the start of the next school year.Before the pandemic, Kate Murphy of Vermont and her family did not have enough money to pay for their four children to buy lunch at school.Instead, they purchased lunch foods in large amounts and sent their children to school with food each morning.But when the pandemic hit, the U.S. government made lunch money available to most schools.
