45% of voters take a brave stance against child hunger
A ballot measure to create a universal free school meals program by reducing tax breaks for the wealthiest residents in Colorado has easily passed after federal lawmakers allowed a universal free lunch program to expire earlier this year.
Proposition FF has officially passed, according to a call by The Associated Press on Wednesday, with about 55 percent of voters in favor and 45 percent against with 88 percent of the vote in, per the New York Times.
The Healthy School Meals for All program will raise $100 million a year to provide and pay for meals in public schools, which advocates say will be crucial in lessening the burden of food insecurity for tens of thousands of students across the state.
Bet you that 45% is made up of 1% actual rich people, then the remainder is split 50/50 between just absolute assholes who aren't rich but just hate poor people (don't care if we're talking kids here) and white folks who (in their minds I mean) don't like seeing minorities getting "freebies".
Edit: some of the results of this election (and commentary around it) are really pushing me further into the "the white working class as a whole will never be a reliable ally of revolutionary social change in the US" camp.
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You've found a reliable ally for revolutionary social change in the US? Have the black bourgeois come through for you, or the indigenous intelligentsia? America's foundation is pitting peoples against each other to support capital, of course the group most benefited by capital is the one it is hardest to get to oppose it, but none of these groups are our allies. The movement of gay but cis men and women to turn about and spit in the face of other queer people(not all but a noticeable amount) once they got themselves slightly more accepted tells you all you need to know about american social movements. We are the only ally of so many groups that will denounce us instantly to help themselves. No one will help us unless we force them to.