America’s school lunch crisis

Posted on AllSides March 2nd, 2023
From The Left
Education, Schools, School Lunches
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ANALYSIS

In 2020, when schools across the country closed to slow the spread of Covid-19, federal lawmakers did something unprecedented: They decided to pay for free lunch for every public school student in America, every day, no questions asked. Millions of children rely on free or reduced price meals at school, and policymakers knew that need would only grow as families faced a devastating pandemic.

The effect of the free meals was dramatic. Parents, many of them facing layoffs, illness, and grief, no longer had to worry about the cost of lunch for their...

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https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23618443/school-lunch-kids-pandemic-debt-shaming

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