U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Don Bacon (R-NE) recently unveiled a bipartisan bill that would expand free school meals programs for some 400,000 children living in kinship care, meaning they reside with their grandparents or in other arrangements.

“Food insecurity poses a serious risk to a child’s health and development and the opioid epidemic has only exacerbated the issue,” Rep. Fitzpatrick said on Sept. 13. “No child should have to wonder when their next meal will come.”