Author: Juliana Kim

Seventh-graders sit together in the cafeteria during their lunch break at a public school in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 10, 2023. Wong Maye-E/AP hide caption toggle caption Wong Maye-E/AP When Republican lawmakers secured cuts to the United States’ largest food assistance program last year, Paige Shoemaker DeMio wasn’t worried about children going hungry just at home — but at school. “Anytime we’re hearing about cuts to SNAP or Medicaid, we’re worried about what’s going to be the domino effect of this,” she says. Shoemaker DeMio is a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.…