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WhiskeyGrinder

(22,145 posts)
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 11:46 AM Jun 2022

Free US school lunches were a dream come true. Now, a hunger crisis looms for 10 million children

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/04/us-school-hunger-crisis-federal-waivers-end

For the last two years, the notion that no kid should ever have to go hungry in the US has gotten closer to a reality, thanks to federal waivers that have expanded children’s access to food. The waivers resulted in a simple but revolutionary outcome: free lunch, year-round, for every American schoolchild.

But that will come to an end in weeks, as Congress has failed to include an extension of the waivers, which have allowed schools to offer school lunches as well as summer lunch handouts, enabling an estimated 10 million more students to get a free meal.

Now, as rising prices hit families and school food programs alike, the program’s expiration will cause a cliff that some parents, cafeteria workers and nutrition advocates say could cause a catastrophe.

Ample research shows the educational, health and behavioral benefits for students who eat breakfast and lunch. But millions of students cannot afford to pay a full-price school lunch, and a pre-pandemic survey by the School Nutrition Association found as many as 75% of school districts in America have unpaid student meal debt.
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Free US school lunches were a dream come true. Now, a hunger crisis looms for 10 million children (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2022 OP
What kind of shit hole nation doesn't make childhood education and nutrition a priority? hunter Jun 2022 #1
'Murica XanaDUer2 Jun 2022 #2
Kick WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2022 #3
The kids parents may be bums. But we do not starve children, regardless of their parents ashredux Jun 2022 #4
Hey, once babes are out of the womb, they are on their own...Ayn Rand wanted it that way. Tommymac Jun 2022 #5
Makes you wonder how billionaire/millionaire folks are spending their money today? packman Jun 2022 #6
Who in Congress failed? KS Toronado Jun 2022 #7
So constantly embarrassed by my country.. n/t TeamProg Jun 2022 #8

ashredux

(2,593 posts)
4. The kids parents may be bums. But we do not starve children, regardless of their parents
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 01:45 PM
Jun 2022

So, we let kids go hungry, then allow them to be gunned down after lunch?

That is NOT my America…VOTE FOR CHRIST SAKE!!

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
5. Hey, once babes are out of the womb, they are on their own...Ayn Rand wanted it that way.
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 01:48 PM
Jun 2022

Don't we all realize this is a dog eat dog world?

Good thing is those kids will soon be able to buy their own guns.

KS Toronado

(16,900 posts)
7. Who in Congress failed?
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 01:56 PM
Jun 2022

The Biden administration didn’t include the extensions in its latest $1.5tn spending bill, reportedly at the
insistence of the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell. McConnell has not commented publicly on the issue,
and his office did not respond to a request for comment. But a GOP aide told Politico in March that it was no
longer necessary to expand school nutrition programs more than two years into the pandemic.

Appears Moscow Mitch informed everyone there would be no repug votes in the Senate.
He believes all children are welfare queens, and we're not going to help their kind.

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