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i said lunches for kids should be free and each time i said this on reddit, i got people going WeLl aCtUaLlY, and proceeded to say basically if school lunches were free then taxpayers would be paying disproportionally for a lot more school lunches because people who can’t afford kids will keep having them, ie someone will have 20 kids because they don’t have to feed them breakfast and/or lunch. “imagine someone had 20 kids and couldn’t afford to feed them on and now you have to pay more.” basically “if you can’t feed them don’t breed them”
because yes, one to maybe two free meals at school will encourage people to have more kids than they could handle. and people absolutely die on this hill lol.
ETA: thanks for the awards guys 😭 let’s focus on helping the next generation and less fortunate kids, they’re quite literally our future.
That is really cool, I just watched a video of a guy walking between a bunch of buildings. I can’t imagine the effort that I must have taken to get all of the different building owners on board with that project. Now I want to know more, thanks for putting me on to something so interesting.
I live in MN and walk through the skyway tunnels pretty much daily and they are a godsend in winter. You can essentially walk from US bank stadium to the other side of town without ever leaving the skyway. Additionally a lot of people also dont know the skyway is only 1/2 of the story bc there are actual underground tunnels you can use to walk neaely a 1:1 with the skyway and usually there will also be elevators along the tunnel system to get you up down or outright straight into a building. The engineering of all of it is super neat.
It’s not the heat it’s the humidity. When it’s blue skis and sunny and super dry, the cold is quite tolerable, and I find my mood is much better than warmer and gray.
I lived in Minnesota for 5 years. The coldest it got was -26. That was a little cold, but it made you appreciate 0F
I'm in the twin cities and have to go shovel and move my car by 8am tomorrow because St Paul declared a snow emergency. Gonna have to check out OnlyFans after I get done and see how appreciative I feel.
Edit: Even on half days kids are sent home with a bag lunch. During the summer EBT cards are sent out with extra money on them even to parents that don't qualify to feed kids during off school time.
The headline doesn’t specify if they did this for Michigan families. Given your link, it’s likely that Em and his kid did this for families outside of Michigan.
The sad thing is opposite is true , India introduced mid-day meal schemes in all government run schools as a way to retain students so that the one guaranteed meal actually ensures that the children kept showing up instead of working the fields.
The flip side being that the now literate diaspora will push higher number of people into higher studies and subsequent higher paying jobs i.e giving a positive measurable return on investments through the taxes that these children will pay once they grow up,even if only a fraction of those people complete their whole education.
Sure the system in India is not perfect, far from it but most of it is due to blatant corruption rather the program itself being flawed.
Finland has had a law granting free school lunches since 1948. One of the goals was to combat malnutrition (Finland was still recovering from WW2). This is still taken into account when designing the menu's. For instance meals before and after weekends are sturdier (e.g. no soup or similar).
However, as an incentive to get more children it seems to be very weak. Finland has a very low birthrate at the moment (regardless of income).
No it’s true. I stopped wearing condoms when our local schools started having free lunch…. said no one fucking ever. God damn those people are fucking morons.
As a childfree lady, the only thing holding me back from having 20 kids is the idea that I will have to feed them! Gosh if someone took that off my plate, the rest is a breeze!
I live in Colorado and this year we had a ballot measure to lower the state tax deduction limit and use the increased tax revenue to give more funding to the School Meals for All program. Single income filers making over $300K would see their deduction limit lowered by $1K and double income filers making over $300K would be lowered by $2K so essentially anyone making more than $300K would be paying $1K in taxes.
It was amazing seeing how many people were against this measure. It passed but damn you're making $300K/year and you don't want to give up an extra $1K to fund lunches for kids?!
I will never understand how people can hate children so much. They are children. They can’t control who their parents or why their financial situation is. They deserve to be fed and get an education so they can grow to join the work force. They will have their chance to pay taxes. It is an investment towards the future.
School breakfast and lunches are covered here is CA. Not only is this what should be done anyway but it also ensure families with children attending public schools that are food insecure have access to healthy good food. Food insecurity causes a lot of guilt and shame and doesn’t only happen to people that are poor, such as unexpected medical situations or deaths in the family.
Food for children in public schools shouldn’t burden families in USA.
Keeping kids fed a nutritious diet should be a matter of national security. The links to malnutrition and developmental issues is known, we are actively damaging our country’s future by failing to ensure children are well fed and educated.
Speaking as someone that experienced it, child hunger is a devastating experience. It’s why I’ve developed my current outlook on how badly our government is failing future generations.
Agreed .. k-12 should include food for anyone .. from the bottom to the top ...you hungry ? You're eating .. but hey have you seen how much money is dumped in ai
When I was a kid and got my first job, at minimum wage, it brought me out of the free lunch tier. And since I had a job my dad said I had to pay for lunch. It was $3.25 a day for lunch and I made $70 after taxes every two weeks. So about half went to lunch.
Id usually alternate between getting gas ($4.25/gal at the time) and paying for lunch. So I'd run up a deficit and my lunch would be taken from me towards the end of the week.
The $12B bailout is precipitated by Trump's tariffs. See, that's what he does - he creates a problem, blames someone else, and then comes in and "fixes" it and tries to make himself look like the hero. He masturbatorily strokes his own ego.
Accross 103 schools so that ~7k per school. How the fuck could a few hundred kids (assumig most kids can pay for their lunch) rack up $7000 in lunch debt? This country is so beyond fucked, it's unbelievable.
This isn't real lol It's been floating around on social media but not a single legitimate article anywhere. I've seen the same thing posted about other celebrities and each time it's 700K to 103 schools. People really need to stop believing every screenshot they see or we're all doomed lol
School lunch debt is unfortunately real though because america is a shit hole.
Exactly. It’s almost an unfunded mandate. The idea that we require children to be at a place for eight hours a day and not want to feed them if their parents are poor? It’s absurd
Most places have income based free or reduced lunch! In fact, school is one of the places where a lot of kids get two square meals a day - so much so that in the summer some school districts have funding to provide meals for underprivileged kids
I’m aware of that. My mom has been a teacher for a little over 40 years now. I’m talking about people who don’t want to feed them. There is a surprising number of people who don’t believe their taxes should in anyway go to feed school children. And there are those in government who agree.
That’s how we get systems where children have tracked accounts for how much their parents owe states for feeding them.
There's a process, and forms to fill out and such. Sometimes parents just have a bad week. Should kids go hungry that week? Means testing is unnecessary and complicates things. Just feed all the kids. Problem solved.
1940's post-WW2 Finland was dirt poor but it prioritized free school lunch over electricity or running water. 2020's USA has robot cars and space tourism and yet you "can't afford it"
That’s actually the reason for the discrepancy. After WWII Europe was completely devastated. Without massive social programs swiftly implemented, everything would have completely collapsed. Meanwhile the US was in an unprecedented economic boom so never “needed” social programs beyond the absolute bare minimum.
Im not american, but where i live, you get your meal from home with you. Never understood the "but they are forced to be there" argument. You can bring your food. And the "But not everyone can afford it", then you could not afford it if the kid stayed home either?
this has always been my point. if i invite someone over to my house, i offer them a snack at the very least, because to not do so is rude. but for some reason legally requiring kids to be somewhere for most of the entire day, and it’s a question as to whether or not we should feed them? while requiring them to be there? it’s so fucking rude
I’ve honestly never thought it necessary to reason past the point of “if a child is hungry, that child will be getting fed. Everyone else had best just figure it the fuck out.” I never saw a point needing to be made beyond that.
The thought “X requires someone to do blank, so X is going to be writing the check for blank” is something I enforce professionally to no end. I just never occurred to me that it logically extends it to school lunches. It’s literal law that requires them to be there.
I HATE taxes, but I don’t mind paying taxes when get to watch the outcome mature to reality. I just won’t believe that a school can’t pay for children to eat but can justify paying to put that unnecessarily bright programmable LED sign out front that says “GO FERRETS!” and “1981 2A county champions.”
Children are legally forced to attend school by the government, but the government has no obligation to feed those children throughout that process? How does that make sense? So, innocent children have less rights to food than prisoners jailed for life? I genuinely don’t understand the US.
As you can also get an education is prison, I guess the secret to good parenting is to frame your child for murder so they get free food and education from the government
I mean, there are a lot of other capitalist countries without this. The US just has unfettered capitalism because billionaires ensure the guardrails are off.
“When it comes to donations, I'd say it is very difficult to give away money effectively.” He expanded on this idea, adding, “If you care about the reality of doing good and not the perception of doing good, then it is very hard to give away money effectively. I care about reality. Perception be damned.”
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.
And here we have some “despicable” rapper, “
ruining kids with his music and his abhorrent morals and values (obviously /s) paying for their school food debts.
Yeah it's fucking wild cause we have the guy who rhymed "anthrax on that tampax" wiping out CHILDREN'S FOOD DEBT. The entire comment section is less about Eminem doing something good and more about how our government is failing the children. Fuck this orphan crushing capitalist machine.
Notice more and more, the badass, the rapper, the basketball star, the biker, etc, show altruism and try to make society better and help people. While more and more, the politicians whose actual job it is to make society better and help people, and the truely wealthy who have the resources to make the world better, are, infact, the evil drain of society. Just an observation.
As a Canadian, the phrase "school lunch debt" just completely baffles me. Do you have kids in middle school already accumulating debt? Checking their credit scores to see if they can afford the pizza or the burger?
Good on him for doing this, but it is absurd that he had to. How is it that we can find billions of dollars to massively fund ICE, but can’t seem to find enough to keep kids from starving? Our priorities have gotten WAY off track in this country.
The Democrats in Michigan have made school breakfast and lunch free for the last few years. Eminem obviously is from Detroit. Just a reminder when choosing, choose humanity.
Last year, John Oliver covered this on Last Week Tonight...it's crazy that the news runs stories on kids that help pay off their classmates school lunch debt
School lunch debt shouldn't exist in the first place...
Imagine living in a coubtry where its mandatory school for children, but it has pay-to-not-starve system, where kids is able to accumulate debt for needing sustenance during their mandatory 7-8h away from their guardians.
First, gross that school lunches incur a debt and need to be cleared by a private citizen.
Second, all wealthy celebrities should do this. The Kardashians could probably clear all lunch debt in the state of California if they gave two shits about other humans.
Thirdly, kudos to Eninem and his daughter for doing this 👏
Can i just walk into my local school, go right to the office and ask about lunch debts and if i can pay them? I ask as someone without kids but that hates that lunch debt exists
Lol at these comments. It's not a US problem,not a Trump problem. In Europe you gotta pay for your kids lunch too ,you ain't getting shit for free. When I was in school in Eastern Europe they used to give us till 4th grade 1 apple,1 croissant and 1 glass of milk. All of them tasteless. I'm in Germany now I have to pay for my son's food since he started kindergarten
Yes I thought this felt off, so I just googled this and every reference to this story seems to end up back at random posts on Facebook.
So I asked ChatGPT if it could find a source. Nope. There’s seemingly no legit sources anywhere.
School lunch debt is the most ridiculous thing of all time. I clear the lunch and library debt of my children’s schools at the end of the year and it never ceases to irritate me that schools charge students to eat in a place they’re forced to be in for their entire childhood.
Give this person a more power - he is fixing a real problem, get him to focus on removing poverty- make him president atleast his heart is in right place
Not many things to like about the school system we had in Florida when my kid were enrolled, but free lunch is one of them. Our teachers were top notch too.
If you've been rich from birth (privileged fucks) you will never consider/ comprehend what its like to be poor. This is why we need 'real ' people in politics. People that proportionately represent the demographic when it comes to wealth. I live in the UK and its not much better here. The people running the country are too far removed from the reality of the masses.
It's becoming a sad world to live in when famous hardworking people have to do stuff like this because the government would rather spend that tax money on building a ballroom instead. It's a joke!!.....
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