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Free school meals for all may reduce childhood obesity, while easing financial and logistical burdens for families and schools (theconversation.com)
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[–] sablebadger 4 points 9 months ago

My wife works at an elementary school, and a fair number of the kids depend on those school lunches as the only food they might eat that day. The school is in a mixed and low income neighborhood, and for some of the families this is how their kids get most of their meals.