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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
 

Anti-hunger advocates say nutrition needs don't stop just because school does.
By Karen Kasler - June 11, 2010
Kids may be cheering that school is out, but anti-hunger advocates say summer break means a vacation from lunch for hundreds of thousands of low-income children in Ohio. There were about 850,000 kids who got free or reduced priced lunch during the school year in Ohio. And Lisa Hamlar Fugitt with the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks says there are about 1,400 sites around the state serving lunch to those kids in the summer, but it's not enough.

Lisa Hamlar-Fugitt (:15)
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Lisa Hamlar-Fugitt (:18)
Federal dollars help with the costs of food, but not with renting sites or paying people to work at them. 150 AmeriCorp/Vista volunteers will be sworn in Monday. Hamlar Fugitt says some of them will visit grocery stores and go door-to-door in areas where there are summer food programs in operation, to remind parents that they are available.

For more on this issue, tune in to "The State of Ohio" on PBS stations around the state this weekend.



 
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