Over 7,000 students in Georgia with unpaid lunch balances are getting a helping hand following a $1 million initiative from the Arby’s Foundation, the nonprofit announced Thursday.
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Beat me to it by 19 minutes
The orphan crushing machine shall stop…for now
One of the orphans jammed the machine.
what the fuck is a lunch debt???
States that opted out of federal funding for school lunches (because fuck them poor kids) let hungry children run up a tab on cafeteria lunches. Then they punish and publicly shame them for not paying. Why? FREEDOM. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
God damn, they took the kids food back and threw it away.
What fucking assholes to put a child through that. Embarrassing.
Waitwaitwait excusmethefuckwhat?
HOW the hell did USA happen into an idea of putting goddamn KIDS into debt?! I mean, I live in EU. In my country, there were school-run lunches…or rather dinners, anyway. These were paid upfront, once per month, at overall small price (still somewhat pricey, but actual alternative for families that didn’t want to pack sandwiches for their kids.)
But ALSO! Wtf USA? If lunch is such a problem, why not, dunno, make your child lunch for school at home?
I cannot wrap my head around this. It’s weird. Too weird.
The families in question don’t have the time or money to serve breakfast and pack lunches, both parents work multiple jobs to make ends not quite meet, type of situation. School meals are a convenience for middle/upper class families and a life preserver for low income/food insecure families. For a lot of those kids it’s the only meals they get that day.
At my school growing up we had the pre paid lunch cards in a file at the start of the lunch line, the lunch card lady would find and punch your card when you went through. The “free lunch” cards were a different color than the “pre paid lunch” cards, which some of the parents worried was causing embarrassment for the children on food assistance. So the PTA voted to make them all the same color, with no way for kids to see if other kids qualified for free lunches.
That’s the difference between conservative and progressive states. As of last year in California all schools are required to offer breakfast and lunch to all children regardless of ability to pay. In my area (of California) there are stations set up daily through out the summer break to distribute sack lunches for kids who don’t eat when they don’t go to school.
Conservative states literally refuse free money from the federal government for these programs (the states do have to put up some money for it too) because they don’t think that anyone should get “something for nothing” including hungry children. To the point that these kids get their food thrown in the trash after they’ve been served, by grown up bullies who work for the school. Because that’s what Jesus would do.
Only meal a day…
You know what, the more I read the more I believe that ya all live in some sort of dysfunctioning dystopia. First thought was “then why won’t they move somewhere cheaper” but I guess in USA it may be not possible, am I right?
I mean, in what hellish place both parents have to take more than one job just to survive? One of them wpuld be understandable. One struggling with many while other stays at home too. But both? WTF.
Anyway, thanks for comment, ot was informative if not depressing.
It’s the cost of hosting a lanch party
Georgia apparently would rather put 10 year olds into debt than feed children. It’s the best they can do as Christians.
It is biblical. Charity to people like Paul was freely given out of love vs welfare-taxation system we have now.
Of course a good person who was a Christian could reason out
“Paul was in Rome so he must have seen the free donations of food given by the emperor to the city’s poor but didn’t comment on it. Which meant that when he talks about charity he is talking about a supplement, yes a supplement not a first response, to actual effective large scale operations. I should be happy with both. A good government that works hard that I add too. Not a bad government I helped create and stick a bandaid on by throwing a twenty in the collection plate”.
A pity this doesn’t seem to occur to them. Despite the theological wiggle room.
Lunch debt …
Jesus Christ. Students now have debts before they even leave high school? Cool.
Pretty soon it will be the norm that when you graduate high school you take your first bankruptcy and clean your slate before your life really starts to matter. Hell it’s only 7 years, you got 4 years of college so only 3 more till you can start living again! Well I guess after you somehow pay off those new college loans as well.
in capitalism, by the time you were put into this world, you already have a fuck ton of debt
Unfortunately true.
Just like in Christianity we are all born with sin, in America we are all born with debt.
children having lunch debt isnt a thing that should exist in the supposedly richest country in the world.
and it shouldnt be reliant upon kind and generous donations for them to be fed.
for fucks sake, I’m tired of these stories made to look as feel good stories when they are nothing but documentation of the decline of our civilization.
“Oh, yes, children. You can’t eat today because you are poor, lest some generous noble allows it with a meager donation of a fraction of their wealth”
Something something boring dystopia
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Malnutrition leads to all kinds of cognitive problems or developmental issues, which just increases the burden on society later from medical or social issues developed by such people. Lunch debt is a shitty, gross concept and I hate living in a world where it exists.
Sad that this is even a thing. The richest nation on earth should be able to give its future 2 square meals a day.
But that would set them up with unreasonable expectations for adulthood! Gotta prepare them for their future of struggling to get by.
School lunch debt is the so incredibly dystopian that I hope 20-30 years from now people will have to use an internet search to find out what it meant to people in this decade. Like it’s so unabashedly wrong as a thing, I hope we look at like when Bayer made heroin and bloodletting was in practice.
Yet another dystopic horror disguised as a feel-good story.
Does this qualify as aboringdystopia content?
Sure does.
Fuck yes
Food is a human right…
Tax write off
Even as a tax right-off it costs money. For instance about ⅓ of my income goes to taxes, so every $100 I donate to charity results in me saving about $33 in taxes. So a $100 donation only costs me about $67. It still costs me, and it still costs companies real money who make charitable contributions. They should be recognized for it.
It also does a lot to help them keep their “meager” profit margins that they artificially keep low to avoid paying taxes in the first place.
How about we get all the extra money that taxing would give us and then charity can be given out afterwards. Yes it costs them money but they already aren’t paying their fair share.
Jfc
“Lunch Debt” … jesus christ
“Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn gave to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward, they were all given invoices and in his majestic mercy he allowed them all an extra 30 days to pay.”
Matthew 15:32
Every day we are drifting further and further from supply side Jesus
