Over the last year, momentum has been building to revive the pandemic-era model of universal school food access. A new coalition is pushing the federal government to act.
We’re charging for children’s health and well being and education. It’s insane.
yeah. there are more impactful and more sweepingly bad policies in the world, but blanket opposition to the idea of free school meals for everyone is one of the policies that best highlights how flagrantly immoral modern conservative politics tend to be. there is literally no downside. it’s not even expensive in any sense of that word. we did it without issue for years during COVID and nobody complained!
Oh yeah, I wish we could be focused on the difficult things, but apparently some folks think that children shouldn’t be able to eat. I don’t get it. Let’s tackle these easy things so we can move on to others.
yeah. there are more impactful and more sweepingly bad policies in the world, but blanket opposition to the idea of free school meals for everyone is one of the policies that best highlights how flagrantly immoral modern conservative politics tend to be. there is literally no downside. it’s not even expensive in any sense of that word. we did it without issue for years during COVID and nobody complained!
Oh yeah, I wish we could be focused on the difficult things, but apparently some folks think that children shouldn’t be able to eat. I don’t get it. Let’s tackle these easy things so we can move on to others.