Just in time for free school lunches to end because Democrats couldn't be bothered to continue a program that helped keep kids fed with at least one meal. There are so many kids that only really eat the meals they get from school because there's just not enough money at home.
Something else particularly damning is the changing type of foods by moving away from fresh produce which will have a longer lasting effect on people's health and wellbeing overall. People joke about the broke college student living off cup ramen, but eating TV dinners and other "cheaper" foods usually leads to unhealthier foods in general which contribute to metabolic syndrome and generally poor health outcomes. It's also paradoxical in some ways because fresh produce is still the cheaper way to go, if you actually have time at home to properly prepare it. It takes me 2-3 hours to make a batch of 3 small cauliflower pizza crusts, requiring physical labor to squeeze out the water from the cauliflower and the labor to turn it into cauliflower rice. I'm unemployed and I find the process too long to be truly viable, working a fulltime job and then coming home to do this seems just like hell so even though I can make a pizza relatively cheaply, buying the thing off the shelf is going to be preferable because 15 minutes waiting for it to cook in the oven compared to 3 hours, at least I get to use the extra crusts for other meals in the future so it's a bit of an investment where I have easy meals later on.
Democrats couldn’t be bothered to continue a program that helped keep kids fed with at least one meal.
That's what they did for the expansion of the Child Tax Credit too. I think it only lasted ~6 months or so. It was insanely successful but the dems let the funding run out. And that was that.
Just in time for free school lunches to end because Democrats couldn't be bothered to continue a program that helped keep kids fed with at least one meal. There are so many kids that only really eat the meals they get from school because there's just not enough money at home.
Something else particularly damning is the changing type of foods by moving away from fresh produce which will have a longer lasting effect on people's health and wellbeing overall. People joke about the broke college student living off cup ramen, but eating TV dinners and other "cheaper" foods usually leads to unhealthier foods in general which contribute to metabolic syndrome and generally poor health outcomes. It's also paradoxical in some ways because fresh produce is still the cheaper way to go, if you actually have time at home to properly prepare it. It takes me 2-3 hours to make a batch of 3 small cauliflower pizza crusts, requiring physical labor to squeeze out the water from the cauliflower and the labor to turn it into cauliflower rice. I'm unemployed and I find the process too long to be truly viable, working a fulltime job and then coming home to do this seems just like hell so even though I can make a pizza relatively cheaply, buying the thing off the shelf is going to be preferable because 15 minutes waiting for it to cook in the oven compared to 3 hours, at least I get to use the extra crusts for other meals in the future so it's a bit of an investment where I have easy meals later on.
That's what they did for the expansion of the Child Tax Credit too. I think it only lasted ~6 months or so. It was insanely successful but the dems let the funding run out. And that was that.
Change in US poverty rate.
The MNSBC source for the sake of completeness...