Every time I read about this I remind people of the Iowa governor.
The feds offered free money to help clear Iowa kids lunch debt.
Iowa governor Kim Reynolds turned it down because “we are in an obesity epidemic”.
Read that a couple of times to yourself just to let it sink in. Conservatives are about hurting people just so they can get a couple of easy points in the polls, even if it means literally letting innocent children of poor families go hungry.
The orphan crushing machine continues to crush orphans.
Is this supposed to be an uplifting story?
If a kid was able to do this by saving his allowance, then it can’t possibly be very much compared to resources of a school or its surrounding tax base. Give the kids their food.
Yeah usually they’d cut kids off from lunch after like 10ish dollars of lunch debt for my school, like 5 meals behind max.
So a class worth of school lunch debt legit might be like 100$, and prevent a handful from being allowed lunch anymore. The level of petty is absurd.
A heartwarming story here would be the pay kiosk for tracking lunch purchases being stolen or destroyed.
Paying off debt incurred to hungry children is insane shit.
School lunch debt
Just fucking look at those words.
If you have kids and you live in a country where that phrase exists, and you’re not doing anything about it, you’re not a human any more
Americans hate women, it’s simple. Who is disproportionately affected by hungry children? Who has limited bodily autonomy? We can point to the Republicans for wearing that hate publicly, but Democrats haven’t done their part to sign laws that would fix this. Women in America hate women too, it’s weird.
