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Trump Admin Ends Free School Lunch For 500,000 Low-Income Children
The cruelty is the point. No child should go to school hungry. The Trump administration's move to cancel free school lunches for hundreds of thousands of children is cruel.
About a half-million students could lose access to free school meals under a Trump administration proposal to limit the number of people who qualify for food stamps, harm[ing] needy schoolchildren.
The change... would cut an estimated 3 million people from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. But the impact of the cuts is anticipated to go further: Children in those households could also lose access to free school lunches, since food stamp eligibility is one way students can qualify for the lunches.
Children affected by the change would lose eligibility next school year....
Trump is depriving 500,000 CHILDREN of their school lunches for no reason. Trump and his billionaire friends have no concern with harming vulnerable children like this. It is impossible to comprehend.
Nearly one in seven children came from households that were considered “food insecure” in 2018. Recognizing that many households rely on schools for food, some school systems have begun feeding their students through the summertime.
Both the SNAP and school meals programs are critical in combating food insecurity among children, ensuring children are fed nutritiously in school, during the summer and in other care settings. By undermining access to these essential programs, the proposed rule would worsen child food insecurity, with detrimental effects on children’s academic outcomes, health and more.
The department did not publicize the estimated number of students who could lose free lunch eligibility during the comment period for the regulation, when interested groups could weigh in on it.