(AP) — School food service worker Alina Mendoza stands in the kitchen of Scott Elementary School in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.
Mendoza was excited this summer when a federal grant provided money for her daughter and other children to pick up backpacks full of food each Friday from a local elementary school. The grant was part of $6.3 million the U.S. Department of Agriculture spent this year to try to find new ways of making sure children from low-income families get enough to eat during the summer. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
