Grocery cards and car repairs: How COVID aid changed the way schools can help homeless kids

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Grocery cards and car repairs: How COVID aid changed the way schools can help homeless kids

IGA Foodland Grocery Store Juneau Alaska, December 20, 2022 (Photo By Paige Sparks/KTOO) This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Mollie Eppers tried for years to give students experiencing homelessness prepaid grocery cards that would allow their families to shop for food. But the student services specialist in Juneau, Alaska, couldn’t devise a system that would satisfy the spending…