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Federal cuts threaten free school lunch provision that serves 145,000 Arizona kids

Arizona has seen record numbers of people removed from the SNAP rolls. And there has been pressure from Congressional Republicans to raise the threshold for schools to qualify for those universal free lunches.

David Lujan is executive director of Children's Action Alliance and the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, which crunched the numbers on this.

The Show spoke with him more about it.

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