• cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There are some states that feed kids as a matter of routine state budgeting. Those kids get a lunch paid for by taxpayers. A damn fine investment of tax dollars, if you ask me.

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      2 months ago

      Schools provide lunch to ANYONE who shows up needing lunch in my county.

      Year round.

      Adults can come, they can bring children not old enough to go to school and they can come alone.

      They don’t sit in the cafeteria with the kids during the school year BUT they can pick up a free lunch from the kitchen.

      Turns out feeding people costs less than hungry people (which is how they keep justifying it to the people who want to take it away) AND it’s the right thing to do.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Here we parents have to pay. But parents that cannot afford it can contact the authorities and get government funds for that without their children (and their friends) to ever learn about that.

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      2 months ago

      Tim Walz is governor of one of these states.

      I agree feeding children is an unequivocally great use of tax dollars.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      If people think schools feeding kids is a waste of tax dollars, imagine how much of a waste it is to try to teach hungry children.