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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.

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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 ā€œwe are in an obesity epidemicā€.

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.

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Love the player, hate the game.

I love his selfless attitude and hate that lunch debt is even a thing.

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Itā€™s an American thing. Assuming how itā€™s done in America is how itā€™s done in the rest of the world is just another form of American Exceptionalism.

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It is a shame to have something like school lunch debts in the first place. This is something that should be free from the start.

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The orphan crushing machine continues to crush orphans.

Is this supposed to be an uplifting story?

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If you leave orphans to crush themselves, itā€™s just not going to happen.

/s

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