The Greater Boston Food Bank provides food supply to 600 distribution partners in eastern Massachusetts.
"Food insecurity leads to or causes so many other problems for the family and for a young person, so we've got to get after it and address that," said Healey."I think we need to build on some of the existing programs that are there to provide assistance, not just for food, but housing and also for electricity and heat, as we face this winter, so those are some of the things we are going to focus on and get after right away.
"We've got a food policy council that is really working hard to address where we have, what we call food deserts, how we can make sure people are not just having access to food, but high-quality, nutritious offerings, and it's really coming from the community, closing that circle that we may be growing ourselves sourcing ourselves from Massachusetts," she said.
"There are a lot of folks that are really worried and nervous and desperate for where their next meal is coming from," he said."In the legislature, we are trying to provide school meals for all kids across the commonwealth, which we did in this session in our budget to universal school meals, so free meals for all children, breakfast and lunch across the entire state."
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