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I read a recent comment that changed my mind about school lunches (free for all, not just those that need it). Essentially, if you're legally required to be somewhere, meals should be provided.
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Let's assume (bad assumption, but it should be good enough for the math) that a Happy Meal™®© is a decent meal. It costs about $6 around here, so let's say without toy it's $5. https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp says there are 71 million kids. $466 billion a year. Ok, ok, that is maybe too high. Let's assume a wonderful world where you can produce a meal for a dollar (less than the local scho…
>It costs about $6 around here, so let's say without toy it's $5. Sure but half of that is profit, so it's a silly thing to even mention. If you are using bad faith exams intentionally, it's a good sign that your comment is being made in bad faith. >$77 billion a year. I'm not sure you how go to 77 billion from 71 million kids, but whatever, if that's what it costs we should do it.
77,745,000,000
A dollar a meal, three times a day, three sixty five days a year. Pretty simple.
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Is America planning on reducing its insanely high military budget?
I hope so. I'm favor of us dramatically scaling back our military commitments, including pulling out of NATO.
It's been a defense sector subsidy since the death of the USSR, right up until Trump made nobody want to buy our equipment.
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I literally googled "what do people buy with ebt" and got a list [0] with actual information that seems very reasonable. If you're gonna participate in the conversation, please do better than this. [0]: https://epicforamerica.org/social-programs/here-is-what-food...
The grandparent is hidden but your link has the following as the thesis statement: > As a result, data show that sizable portions of SNAP dollars purchase nonnutritious foods, such as sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health.” Correct me if I'm wrong, but "sugary beverages" and "processed foods" are, in fact, food? Items which contain calories that are vital to sustaining life? And fo…
On the off chance you're interested in school lunches I highly recommend watching videos of Japanese school lunches on YouTube. There's a bunch out there now and if you were raised in the American system it will probably blow your mind. The idea that lunches can be freshly made, on site, out of healthy ingredients and children are active participants in serving and cleaning up is just crazy. When I encountered it for…
I felt like a big part of my childhood had been sold to the lowest bidder. It was. Most local procurement laws enforce this.
Many people, especially in our subculture, tend to feel like if they can't solve an entire problem forever, if they can't Change The World, what they're doing is futile and pointless But most people can't change the world. Most individuals shouldn't have the power to change the world. What we can do is be a force for good in the lives that are proximal to us. If we can make a few people's lives better, we should rest…
I find it really challenging to get people to notice these things, let alone actively take even small actions for positive change. I'm interested in what the community thinks are some of the methods I could use to improve these things, and why people quickly become inured to these kinds of problems. I'm thinking, specifically, about peeling paint, litter, dirty signs, the kind of thing that even a passing effort, a h…
Removing the loose paint, figuring out if there’s a moisture problem, rot/rust, or other physical repairs needed, buying appropriate paint (maybe matching the color), then sanding, cleaning, priming, sanding, cleaning, and painting.
Slapping a bit of new paint over a problem is not the answer unless you want to make a recurring problem out of it.
Is the overhead in deciding who gets free lunch and who doesn't and then managing the debt really saving more money than just giving all public school kids free lunches with no strings attached?
Without reading into lunch specifically, I'd very much be inclined to say yes. The reason is, I spent many hours researching the fair structure of my transit agency. Fares that have, obviously, been in the news for being harming to low income citizens. What I found was that the city spent almost 1 billion on upgrading their collection systems, whereas the yearly revenue from those same systems amounted to 1/10th of t…
Objectively speaking, the past several years (especially post lockdowns) have demonstrated the folly of a fare-free system. It only takes one homeless person misbehaving once to permanently dissuade dozens or hundreds of other people from ever using public transportation again.
In the past few months since LA has upgraded fare equipment and begun checking for valid fares, drug use and property crimes has fallen by over 3/4th. People have begun riding the Metro again now that the homeless aren't using it to shoot up. It has worked so well that they're expanding it to the entire rail system over the next several years and trying to figure out how they can do something similar with the buses.
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Kids don't go to all schools: they go to their school. So by fixing things in one school, any school, you're really fixing things for all the kids that go there.
This is why the wealthy should be required to use public schools.
No, no, no. If you want better schools then vote for school choice.
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In America even if we enacted this the kids would get meals that are terrible like 10$ chicken strips, hotdogs and fake pizza
Huh? We have free lunch in all schools in California and they serve everything from pizza to burritos to hamburgers.
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> everyone votes on hot button issues like the economy, immigration, and trans athletes in sports Everyone votes emotionally on issues they don't even understand (e.g, there is ~1 trans athlete out of 10,000 NCAA athletes right now, so why the hell is it even a minor issue, let alone a national debate?).
Because there is only room for 1 gold medal. Only room for 1 silver medal. This is in Pool, which almost a best case scenario for women to beat men and yet, in the UK, its two former men gunning for gold and silver. https://www.newsweek.com/trans-sport-pool-women-harriet-hayn... If you truly believe transwomen are women, then its great. For anyone who doesn't share that arbitrary idea, it looks like women's sports is…
Should we ban sex for athletes? At a high school level?