{"id":2341,"date":"2025-01-08T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:53:28","slug":"who-stole-free-lunch-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/who-stole-free-lunch-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Stole Free Lunch &#038; Why it Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What essentially was a 14-year pilot program shows that when kids of all incomes get healthy breakfasts and lunches for free at school, it\u2019s a win-win for everyone. Kids get healthier and make better grades.\u00a0 Local school officials are relieved of the administrative burden.\u00a0 Parents benefit because they are relieved of the financial burden and the logistical and emotional burden of getting breakfast and lunch together. Prices at the local grocery store drop because the source of food for schoolchildren shifts from the retail market (the local grocery store) to the wholesale market, thus pushing prices down at the local market.\u00a0 And, it is cheap for the federal government, costing about $50 billion a year in a $20 trillion budget.\u00a0 So what\u2019s the holdup?\u00a0 Republicans.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSolutions: Free School Meals<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kedseconomist.substack.com\/p\/solutions-free-school-meals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/kedseconomist.substack.com\/p\/solutions-free-school-meals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780520269880\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What essentially was a 14-year pilot program shows that when kids of all incomes get healthy breakfasts and lunches for free at school, it\u2019s a win-win for everyone. Kids get healthier and make better grades.\u00a0 Local school officials are relieved of the administrative burden.\u00a0 Parents benefit because they are relieved of the financial burden and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/who-stole-free-lunch-why-it-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Who Stole Free Lunch &#038; Why it Matters&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,44,55,40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-food","category-health","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}