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This is great news, it's frankly embarrassing that it took this long. I know here in New Brunswick, our Conservative government has done the absolute bare minimum to help out hungry kids, of which there are many (30 000 kids live in poverty in NB, and many more probably suffer from some degree of food insecurity.)
It's such a no-brainer to invest in this, like even if you're a heartless neoliberal ultra-capitalist who thinks the poor should suffer, do you not want your future-workforce-in-training to actually absorb their training? Hungry kids don't learn good.
You say that, but Republican legislators all over the US are fighting against universal free school lunch programs.
But their goal isn't an educated workforce, it's to cynically destroy the public school system so that they can funnel taxpayer money to dubious christian private schools via voucher programs.