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 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A national summer program that has provided free sports activities, meals and medical exams to low-income children for four decades could be in jeopardy: It has been dropped from the proposed federal budget.
Lawmakers could still decide to restore the money before the Senate votes on the budget next month, but directors of the National Youth Sports Program are worried.
The program spends about $18 million a year in federal funds and millions more in other donations to offer sports, classes, meals and medical exams to more than 76,000 children, ages 10-16, at some 200 sites across the country.
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