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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFree 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-endBut 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 programs 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.
hunter
(38,263 posts)Oh...
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)ashredux
(2,593 posts)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)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.
packman
(16,296 posts)KS Toronado
(16,900 posts)The Biden administration didnt 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.