D.C. could offer free meals to all students. Every city should.
Velle Perkins faced a no-win choice on Tuesday: She could get the brakes repaired on her car, or she could save that money for groceries.“They were screaming,” she said. “And I knew I couldn’t drive like that.”
“Every bill you pay, you’re thinking, ‘How much are you going to pinch off to go to the grocery store?’” she said. That might mean not paying her full electric bill some months, or trying to get by with the bare minimum amount of gas in her car some weeks, she said. “My son is diabetic and I’m prediabetic, so we have to eat well, and sometimes we can’t do that, because the unhealthy food is the cheaper food. You have to make those choices.
That’s a small amount to spend to meet an essential need of the city’s children, especially when we consider the steep cost of childhood hunger, which includes increased health, behavioral and academic issues. Colorado, California and Maine have already taken that action. In states that haven’t, schools have seen student meal debts rising, according to the, which has been calling on federal and local lawmakers to address the hunger crisis.
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