This Law Directly Benefits Poor Communities

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This Law Directly Benefits Poor Communities

by Muskegon Critic

The importance and brilliance ofUS Department of Agriculture's Community Eligibility Option, signed into law by President Obama last December as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, cannot be overstated.

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Okay...not only is this program designed to help children with low income get access to a hot meal during the day, it is explicitly designed...EXPLICITLY DESIGNED to eliminate any stigma of receiving a free lunch in a community.

The program evaluates the economic eligibility of an entire school or district, rather than individual students, and if 40 percent of the school or district’s students qualify for free lunches, all students get them.

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DIRECTLY targeting poor communities. DIRECTLY reducing financial burden on ALL FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN in poor communities.

The city of Flint, Michigan will be among the first communities in the Nation to receive free lunches for the entire school system.

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1. No comment? n/t

[ellie]

2. This is awesome

The comments on the article were awful so I had to post to tell those assholes what a bunch of selfish fucktards I thought they all were. Thanks for posting this.

[jwirr]

3. I like this program but in truth all students who have eaten hot lunches

at school since it beginning were being subsidized. The lunches were tax supported. This makes it so that there will be more support and hopefully better meals.