Cathy's Place SD

08/14/2024

“The states that chose not to participate in Summer EBT — Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming — could decide to opt in next year.”

They cite opposition to ‘welfare’ and administrative costs in declining to participate in Summer EBT.

01/20/2024

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Help us cover a child’s lunch bill!

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12/11/2023

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is making student lunch debt a thing of the past.

11/28/2023

This is a growing epidemic that leaves school districts with thousands in debt and children without vital nutrition.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some Sioux Falls students may have to go without breakfast or lunch if their parents don’t fill out paperwork for free and reduced-cost meals… but it won& #821…

10/08/2023

Thank you, !

08/13/2023

“Michigan is now the seventh state in the nation to offer free breakfast and lunch for all public school students.”

Starting this fall semester, Michigan students will be guaranteed two meals a day - breakfast and lunch - as the state boosts learning by filling stomachs.

03/25/2023

School cafeterias typically don’t turn away a hungry kid, but debts for unpaid school meals have been rising — showing the level of need, and raising questions about how schools will keep feeding everyone, without federal money to do it.

PHOENIX (AP) — America's schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids' ability to learn. Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall , the need has on...

03/20/2023

Congratulations to for being the 4th state to pass universal school meals for all students. Feeding children brings pure joy! Which state is next?

📸: Ben Hovland
op: Governor Tim Walz

03/17/2023

Gov. Tim Walz put his signature on the universal school meals bill Friday afternoon, providing free breakfast and lunch to all K-12 students, regardless of their parents' income.

01/19/2023

Every year school districts are left to account for large amounts of unpaid lunch debt.

School districts across the country are reporting growing unpaid bills for school meals after the federal government pandemic-era program providing lunches. CBS News correspondent Meg Oliver joins us to discuss her reporting on the problem.

01/18/2023

“Data shows that hundreds of schools are falling behind in paying for meals, with unpaid debts for those expenses reaching $19.2 million as of November among the roughly 850 schools that reported such deficits, according to the School Nutrition Association, a professional group of school nutrition experts that ran the study. One school district alone reported meal debts of $1.7 million, while the median unpaid meal debt was $5,164 per school, the report noted.”

A program that provided free meals for all U.S. schoolchildren expired last year, leaving schools and families in the lurch.