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Doctors and dentists join calls for free school meals to improve children’s diets
(leftfootforward.org)
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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It's even proven to make the line go down. As families have to buy less food to support their kids, grocery stores lower prices to entice shoppers back into spending as much as possible. Wouldn't be shocked to see the big chains beings major opponents of the free lunch groups.
You're right, and that's another fucked thing about it: sometimes the ruling class does the less profitable thing, especially when it comes to the long-term, sometimes for short term gain and sometimes just out of malice or spite for the poors.
Expanding food stamp programs puts more money into the economy than it costs per dollar, but that would be feeding the poors so fuck that, for example.