Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) jointly introduced on Tuesday the Universal School Meals Program Act, a bill that would help provide three free meals per day for all U.S. school children.
In the richest country in the history of the world, when the top 1 percent are making more than they ever have before, it is simply outrageous that 1 in 5 children will go hungry this year, said Sanders in a statement.
School meal debt and lunch shaming the practice of denying students hot or standard lunches if their families have unpaid meal fees have been recently spotlighted. Earlier this week, California banned lunch shaming with the signing of a bill that guarantees all students receive a meal of their choice even if they have accrued outstanding balances
This should be a no-brainer. Anyone who knows about education, knows that a hungry mind cannot learn. Children have no ability to provide for themselves and need food and education if they will ever have a chance to do so.
It's a no brainer that you are completely misrepresenting the facts in pursuit of your agenda of the moment. Here is the current state of free food for schoolchildren.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslpThe National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946.
Program Fact Sheet...
https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/free-school-lunch-breakfast-every-stateThe National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which is administered by the USDAs Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), served nearly 30 million lunches to students every day on average in 2018, and almost three-quarters of those were provided either at no charge or at a reduced price. In the same year over 14 million meals 85 percent of which were free or reduced were served daily through the related School Breakfast Program, which advocates say can have an equally powerful effect on students health and academic success.