It is more important to them to teach children the world is a hard cruel place then to feed them so they become intelligent healthy members of society. Wish they could have their own hell hole to live in and leave the rest of us alone.

The can't provide a box of cereal and milk?

I don't understand your thinking.

your happier not understanding.

Glad to see that you are at least sensible and not a conservative after all.

You are a fellow liberal and progressive, are you not? I would support you like any DUer 100 percent.

Welcome to the real right wing rethuglafuck world for the last 40 years.

Ugh....

I have poor kids in my classes whose parents won't sign up for free/reduced meals.

I have kids who show up late and don't get their free/reduced means.

See that part of the graphic that points this kind of thing out?

Then again, I have kids whose parents combined income is well over $200k/year and who come to school hungry. They get up, they fuss with their hair, they pick out their clothes, they text, they meet their boyfriend/girlfriend. Somehow food doesn't enter into the picture. And no parent says, "You, sit, eat this."


Then again, I'd like to see the research behind this. Too often people read the conclusions without noticing the definitions, the sample, and the statistics. It's like the "early childhood intervention" debacle, where EC programs are demanded by everybody when they have a large effect on one group, a significant effect on a somewhat larger group, but have few long-term effects of any size on any group.

Clearly get the 99% of us struggling to make it in this 'real' world the thugs have created.

Thank you, great post.

Hell hole indeed, to all of them.

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

Dingdingding! We have a winner.

USA...rotting from the inside out and the head down.

lunch program was signed into law in 1946 by Truman in response to men being denied entry into the military (during WW2) because of diet related health problems.

My personal opinion, this program should be under the defense department, not the farm bill. If it was placed under the defense budget, there would be no question of funding. Even though I don't like the idea of kids being fattened up for war, I am willing to over look it because kids will be fed. To me that is more important than the why.

--and then taking on a complex work-related problem.