(File Photo of Senator John Fetterman)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release from Senator John Fetterman’s office, Fetterman introduced legislation to pay off outstanding student meal debt directed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The department will receive authority to buy food to put in food banks. The department will also fully pay for breakfast or lunch programs that cost schools debt. Almost half a million children who have food insecurities have debt totaling nearly $234 million in the state of Pennsylvania.