No free lunch: Schools get tough on deadbeats [View All]

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Source: MSNBC

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A cold cheese sandwich, fruit and a milk carton might not seem like much of a meal — but that's what's on the menu for students in New Mexico's largest school district without their lunch money.
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"Every time I eat it, it makes me feel like I want to throw up," the 7-year-old said.

Her mother, Darlene Vigil, said there are days she can't spare lunch money for her two daughters.

"Some parents don't have even $1 sometimes," the 27-year-old single mother said. "If they do, it's for something else, like milk at home. There are some families that just don't have it and that's the reason they're not paying."


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29385572/

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You know, with all the billions we've "lost" to Halliburton and other criminal organizations, you would THINK we could at least afford to feed lunch to all of our children whether they can pay for it or not - and a slice of processed American cheese food product on white bread isn't much of a lunch.