Angel de Blas, a 10-year-old entering fifth grade in the fall, said meals at home are uncertain. “Anything we can find,” he explained. Rice and beans, hot dogs wrapped in tortillas, cereal, pizza.
Angel is finishing the orange that accompanied his cheese sandwich. He is eating for free at the Rowland Heights Library, a county library a little more than 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. His brother, Juan, a 21-year-old student at California State University, Fullerton, is seated nearby at a desktop computer. Juan waves me away — he’s trying to enroll in his fall semester classes.
