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Debt, Inflation and Cold Cheese Sandwiches

Pat Fontana / Prism Dec 26, 2024 Schools nationwide use unpaid lunch debt to block teens from attending their graduation ceremonies and threaten to send them to foster care. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Education

The Corporate Bully Taking Your Kid’s Lunch Money

Katya Schwenk / The Lever Sep 6, 2024 As students head back to school, one of the world’s largest payment processors fights to protect a racket upcharging parents on school meals. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

No Free Lunch

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Feb 5, 2014 Dig deeper

School Cafeteria Denies Lunch to Preteen Debtors

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 5, 2013 Twenty-five students at a Massachusetts middle school went home hungry this week when the private contractor that runs the school's cafeteria denied them lunch because the students' accounts were a few cents overcharged. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Critical, Reluctant and Desperate

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2012 Something interesting happens when hardworking, fiscally minded Americans find themselves on the public dole: They resent the government that lends a hand and feel guilty for accepting help. A major article from The New York Times documents the anxiety, frustration and confusion of a growing class of dependent Americans.Hardworking, fiscally minded Americans feel guilty when they land on the public dole. A New York Times article documents the frustration of a growing class of dependent Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gov’t Shutdown Crisis Averted (Again)

Staff / Truthdig Nov 18, 2011 All right, members of the 112th United States Congress, if you keep saying you're about to have a total political meltdown and then nothing happens, we're going to stop believing you Once again, the fearsome government shutdown was avoided Thursday when squabbling factions on Capitol Hill (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

School Lunches Are Making America’s Kids Bigger, Hungrier

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2010 American school officials' attitudes about the relationship between kids and their school lunches have swung from shades of strict social Darwinism to reflections of the free-market mentality over the last century, as Michael O'Donnell explains in his Washington Monthly book review. Thus, the ideal of character-building deprivation gave way to the age of the tater tot. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )