Posted on 12/10/2022 1:43:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, federal policymakers acted quickly and decisively to make school meals available to all children at no charge.
This policy remained in effect for two and a half years. It was a game-changer.
Across the country, school nutrition staff reported numerous benefits in the Food Research & Action Center’s (FRAC) Large School District Report, including removing the stigma from program participation and eliminating school meal debt to the benefit of both families and school districts. The policy also helped address household food insecurity, which rose significantly due to COVID-19 and allowed an additional 10 million students to eat free meals at school each day.
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There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
The government can only give you what it first takes from you.
It’s more like “What AMERICA and AMERICANs lost when the US started giving away universal free school meals.”
Self-reliance. Dignity. Hard work. Thrift. Taking care of your family. You know...all those good old-fashioned American values that made the country great.
It’s all going toward the 31 trillion debt and counting.
I remember most people hated the school provided lunches except for tater tots.
Self-reliance. Dignity. Hard work. Thrift. Taking care of your family. You know...all those good old-fashioned American values that made the country great
Well said. Old America hanging on by a thread.
The Hill is no better than CNN so can we stop treating it like a legitimate “news”
source?
And to think I used to complain about the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and an apple I got to take to school for lunch everyday when I was a kid.....
Nobody lost anything.
We were poor growing up and there were no free lunches at school. My parents managed to send us off with a sandwich and dessert every day in spite of that.
If you have a kid and can’t afford make him/her a P&J sandwich for lunch, you should not have kids.
I thought poor families received EBT credits specifically to feed their dependent children. School lunch at public expense seems redundant.
If you can feed your kids without taxpayer assistance then don’t have kids. I’m very old school about this. The father is responsible for supporting his family. If he knowingly doesn’t do that he should be forced into labor, not prison. When he decides he can get a job on his own and pay support he will be relieved of his indentured servitude.
I know a lot of poor people that had more than my working dad.
In the great depression, the county took extra farmer’s vegetables, canned them and gave them away to folks in need. Grandpa wouldn’t take them. He said they were sharecroppers but they weren’t poor.
Lunch ladies? Hah, we had to make our own library paste
sandwiches with linoleum we stole from the hall ways.
Did you drink your milk through a rolled up newspaper, too? I'll bet you lived in a tumbledown house with holes in the roof.
Only the milk cartons were empty. All the ketchup packets were stomped on the ground.
They do.
There are three classes of people going hungry in the US.
Abused children, abused seniors and people who are stuck in the morass of paperwork that you need to get on government assistance.
Sadly these are the three groups of people that no one in the government actually cares about.
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