Nearly 40 states have chosen to participate in a more than $2 billion grocery program that gives low-income families an extra $120 per child to help feed them during the summer break. But Texas, which has 3.8 million children eligible for the program, is not one of them. The state, which has the highest number of eligible children among the 12 holdouts states, missed the Jan. 1 deadline to let the U.S. Department of Agriculture know if it would participate, and while Texas still has other chances later in the year to join, the decision lies with the state Legislature to approve the cost of administering the program.
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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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