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Alma Adams: We have about 600,000 children who qualify for free and reduced lunch and only 14 percent are accessing.

On the recordJune 15, 2015
We have about 600,000 children who qualify for free and reduced lunch and only 14 percent are accessing.
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Alma Adams
Democratic · North Carolina

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Alma Adams discusses low participation in free lunch programs.

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