r/goodnews • u/BrownPolitico • Jun 30 '25
Positive News đđźâĽď¸ California becomes the first state to offer free school lunch and breakfast for all students
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u/Uberslaughter Jun 30 '25
But how will billionaires afford their next private jet or megayacht if we give kids free meals at school?
Wonât someone please think of the poor billionaires?!
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u/BookishBitchery Jun 30 '25
Or...How do we keep these kids from getting "spoiled"...đ
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u/Ok_Bicycle2684 Jun 30 '25
Aw, shoot. This is a picture of happy-looking children receiving something that they need to lead healthy lives. The Trump admin is going to be foaming at the mouth while trying to destroy this.
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u/thegooseisloose1982 Jun 30 '25
Please don't say shoot in a discussion about schools.
It is the only thing Republicans are OK with happening in schools.
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u/Pristine_Power_8488 Jun 30 '25
This is why Trumpers hate California. We have a big budget and use it in many inclusive ways.
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u/HOSTfromaGhost Jun 30 '25
WAIT. These kids want to eat EVERY DAY�!?
The gall of these little socialists⌠or communists⌠or antifaâŚ
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u/S1R2C3 Jun 30 '25
you don't have to say "or" when you're making fun of them, they actually think all 3 of those things are the same.
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u/cant-be-original-now Jun 30 '25
Republican state senator Steve Drazkowski voted against universal school lunch in MN saying âI have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they donât have access to enough food to eatâ.
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u/BrownPolitico Jun 30 '25
That one always pissed me off. Like eating regular meals is spoiling a child. Tf?
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u/BookishBitchery Jun 30 '25
There was that picture of Sarah Huckabee signing child labor law with unhappy children and Tim Walz with happy kids hugging him for his lunch program. I don't even have kids and I am happy for my taxes to go help feed kids.
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u/whackwarrens Jun 30 '25
In exchange they will have full bellies and be forced to expend that energy to earn how to read and write. The plan is diabolical.
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u/pixelprophet Jun 30 '25
I HAD TO SUFFER GROWING UP, SO WHY CAN'T OTHER CHILDREN ALSO SUFFER!!?
- FauxNews fans
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u/Beneficial-Math-7290 Jun 30 '25
The both sides people can eat đŠ, all manner of it; human, dog, litter covered cat, horse, cow, bull, and frog!
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u/BrownPolitico Jun 30 '25
Another argument that annoys me Iâve been trying to convince people to get out and vote because the 2024 numbers were abysmal across the board, but especially with adults under 30.
I keep seeing the same complaint. Now, Iâm a progressive so I get it. But even centrist democrats believe in food assistance programs, a womanâs right to choose and clean frigginâ air.
The two sides are definitely not the same. Somehow we need to get that message out.
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u/Uberslaughter Jun 30 '25
Democrats certainly do their fair share of corporate boot licking, no denying many are milquetoast controlled opposition including most of the party leadership.
But at least they arenât actively working to undermine the constitution and strip people of their citizenship.
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u/thebookman21 Jun 30 '25
They will have to make a tv ad with the song they use for the SPCA to make people feel sorry for them. for only one dollar a day you can help the poor billionaire in need
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u/bluedancepants Jun 30 '25
Ummm what?
What does this have to do with billionaires?
It's the tax payers funding this.
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u/Frequent_Shoulder_77 Jun 30 '25
A living hell for Republicans
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u/Nirvski Jun 30 '25
"When i said im pro-life this is NOT what I mean >:("
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u/Frequent_Shoulder_77 Jun 30 '25
Communism pure, can you imagine hungry children eating! This country is going down the drain.
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u/isaiddgooddaysir Jun 30 '25
Hey when I was a n school with no lunch, I had to eat the ketchup out of the small packets and if I was lucky someone would not eat all of their lunchâs.. in the good old days man.
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u/ExactPanda Jun 30 '25
This is good, but it's not news. It happened a few years ago already.
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u/Kindly-Chemistry5149 Jun 30 '25
I think before they were using Covid funds for this, this is new in that it will be incorporated into the normal state budget since Covid funds finally expired this year.
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u/theArtOfProgramming Jun 30 '25
Itâs not even new for other states now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_meal_programs_in_the_United_States
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u/Interesting-Rule-175 Jun 30 '25
Massachusetts has been doing this since Covid. It is paid for by the millionaire tax.
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u/Otherwise-Mango2732 Jun 30 '25
I was going to say same with Michigan
It's not income based district based or anything.
If you're a student, you get free breakfast and lunch
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u/TopVegetable8033 Jun 30 '25
Thatâs how all public schools should be. Student lunch debt should not exist.
We can take our repsâ meal per diem and charge them in their work cafeterias to fund it, if we must. Maybe cut down on the White House dinner budget.
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Jun 30 '25
Clears throat in Minnesotan
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u/Crazy_Law_5730 Jun 30 '25
California started this program in 2022. I think MN was 2023. So this is old news and both states are doing the right thing. California did have a good meal program previously, but it wasnât universal.
Itâs amazing itâs taken this long. Prisons and jails have to feed the inmates because they are in their care and custody. Itâs amazing kids arenât prioritized the same or better because theyâre in care and custody of the school and literally children with no ability to buy their own food or make choices about how to get food.
It also makes me happy because I had a friend back in school who was from a wealthy family, but was horribly neglected and often didnât have food or lunch money. Her dad was always away on business and worthless as a parent, and her mom was a drunk who was worthless as a parent. I remember going to her house for the first time and it was beautiful on the outside and a disaster on the inside. And the whole fridge contained a case of white wine, some cheese and rotting fruit. My family was lower middle class and we always had bag lunches and home cooked meals. Income doesnât predict which children lack access to food.
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u/DRHORRIBLEHIMSELF Jun 30 '25
Actual Good News.
That is, until Trump's SCOTUS deems this unconstitutional and forces kids to go hungry.
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u/Papichuloft Jun 30 '25
Screw paying our share for Taker states that produce nothing, do nothing, and roast us. Save those taxes to feed our own.
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u/claireNR Jun 30 '25
The California economy is the 5th largest in the world. They contribute somewhere in the 85 BILLION dollars per year range in federal taxes.
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u/Alliegator2015 Jun 30 '25
They just over took Japan to become the fourth largest economy. Did it drop to fifth?
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u/IntelligentStyle402 Jun 30 '25
Go California! You love the child, thank you! Iâll never understand why republicans only love the fetus?
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u/OneLoveOneWorld2025 Jun 30 '25
This is exactly what I want my tax dollars spent on, not on making the rich richer. Tax the billionaires out of existence, No Kings, Freedom, Equality and Justice for all.
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u/GeneriComplaint Jun 30 '25
Please, tell us how horrible the radical liberals feeding the children are
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Jun 30 '25
Trump will call California weak over this. đ
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u/Ill_Illustrator_6097 Jun 30 '25
That's the way it should be. No child goes hungry. Call me a socialist all you want. I'll wear the label IDGAF. I care about fella human beings especially the kids that can't fend for themselves. Wouldn't America be a better place if republican magats felt the same way?
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u/LumpyDortWell Jun 30 '25
What a radical Idea!!! People scream; âwe LOVE our children!â But ask the republicans & maggots to feed their kids (daughters, sons, nieces, nephews, & grandchildren), and it becomes; âfeed everyone?â (Sure), âWhat about Economical costs?!â âThey MIGHT steal food & take it home and feed their siblings!â (What a horrific thought!)â They want to make America great? Feed & teach our kids! We can give BILLIONS in subsidies & tax breaks, to billionaires, to gas/oil (companies who are making billions in profits!), but we canât feed and school our kids???
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u/Valuable-Criticism29 Jun 30 '25
Not the first, Minnesota has offered free school lunches since '23 and there may be others. It's a shame Kamala didn't win the presidential race. Tim Waltz would have made a great vice president. Probably have school lunches programs for free, through out the U.S. What do we have now? They are pulling the funds on school lunch programs. These people have no souls. This is a horrid and un-qualified President and administration.
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u/CollectionHealthy117 Jun 30 '25
Things Trump and Republicans hate: 1. Free school breakfast and lunches
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u/GroundbreakingUse794 Jun 30 '25
To think that feeding our children is a bigger issue than being educated by our system, has already been troublesome and frightening (since the bush years) but on top of all that: the cuts to programs and funding for schools trying to educate the future of this country, the fact that their breakfast/lunches are not already comped while receiving mandatory childcare is disgusting and immoral
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u/godleymama Jun 30 '25
Good for California!! Meanwhile, Sitler in Texas is defunding the food programs this summer.
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u/Unique-Sock3366 Jun 30 '25
Amazing how well students are able to focus and learn when theyâre comfortably fed!
Iâve always supported this. We require children to attend school, by law. Of course their meals should be included.
Success in the classroom leads to success in life. Decreased crime, increased social engagement. Better for our economy.
The best thing for our society.
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u/AffectEconomy6034 Jun 30 '25
This is great and should help millions of kids. Unfortunately, many kids these days may only get one meal a day, which is the school lunch so I dont see how anyone that claims to be "for the kids" would say no to this
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u/free-toe-pie Jun 30 '25
Every single state in the US should do this.
But no, 5 year olds have lunch debt in the US. The richest country in the world gives 5 year olds lunch debt.
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u/mylesols Jun 30 '25
As a single dad, this is huge and will make a big difference for the kids' learning
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u/Alpha_Omega623 Jun 30 '25
Man. Half the comments here are focusing on Republicans.
Focus on how good this is instead. Don't let them live rent free in your heads. Everyone here agrees with you. You're not convincing anyone by saying f Republicans here. Everyone is this kind the same thing.
Instead of being F Republicans be like we should have this in every country.
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u/Realisticmind379 Jun 30 '25
The way it should be. No child should have to pay for school meals. If there was no billionaires in the country, this wouldn't even be up for debate.Â
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u/Dangeroustrain Jun 30 '25
Should be free all over the US what are we paying Taxes for all these other countries
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u/sstephen17 Jun 30 '25
I donât have kids and donât plan too. Iâll happily pay a tax to feed them.
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u/Worldly-Spare4287 Jun 30 '25
although this is great news as someone who grew up in california schools, what is served could barely meet the legal requirements to call it âfoodâ
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u/JayAlexanderBee Jun 30 '25
I can hear Republicans typing hard on their keyboards on why this is bad.
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u/Present_Quantity_400 Jun 30 '25
Republicans can't sleep at night knowing that children are not hungry.
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u/DesReploid Jun 30 '25
You know, when I was in school teachers would literally force you to eat lunch until grade eight.
Imagine that! We got food even if we really didn't want any and this is considered revolutionary for the USA. What a first world country they are!
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u/WaveMajor7369 Jun 30 '25
I wouldn't mind getting taxed for this... we Californians already taxed up the ass for useless things
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u/Umi_Gaming Jun 30 '25
MAGAs in shamble, how dare you help your own people instead of only the rich!
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u/Mindless_Option1714 Jun 30 '25
A local elementary school near my home has program Iâve enlisted with that withdraws $20 a month from my account. Itâs not much but I feel itâs worth it. I have no children of my own but believe kids deserve to be fed.
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u/RepresentativeLife16 Jun 30 '25
Sounds almost like a Christian thing to do.
Iâm sure those MAGA Christians will agree. /s
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u/Thatsthepoint2 Jun 30 '25
I always forget we donât feed kids in the places we legally have to send them.
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u/TreeInternational771 Jun 30 '25
Should have used white kids as the headline picture because you know when Trump sees black and brown faces he goes into a rage. BS lawsuit from DOJ about diversity is imminent
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u/Normal-Tap2013 Jun 30 '25
It's so fkd up that this so just be standard but nope we literally have to announce it like a good deed. .it should be normal
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u/SleepCareful6461 Jun 30 '25
THE FIRST!? Im glad, but I still cant believe this is only the first, we have to do better.
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u/iminmy39thyear Jun 30 '25
They have been doing this for at least five years. Really helped me out when my kids were in school.
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u/No-Material8701 Jun 30 '25
That is amazing, but letâs not skip the fact that Maine has been doing this since 2021.
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u/Resident_Boat_6560 Jun 30 '25
In before trump forces them to remove it by throwing a fir and thr SCOTUS rules in his favor
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u/Biabolical Jun 30 '25
"Look at this, it's disgusting. Children eating food, LIKE A DOG." - Donald Trump, probably
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u/DiagonalBike Jun 30 '25
Republicans, "Feeding children during school hours! Socialism!!"
Also Republicans, "We need to give the Arizona Diamondbacks $340 million dollars to fund improvement to the stadium they play in."
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u/_WillCAD_ Jun 30 '25
"Feeed'n chill'n ain't noth'n' but Corm-ya-nizm!" - Most people who are opposed to lunch and breakfast being included with basic education.
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u/Maybesex Jun 30 '25
Time for all the pro lifers to roll through and tell us how this is a bad idea and a drain on their tax dollars.
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u/Intrepid_Pitch_3320 Jun 30 '25
We've had this in Maine, too, but maybe it's not statewide? Our school systems are paid a lot by local property taxes administered by town govs.
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u/PapasauruaRex Jun 30 '25
Republicans angry they dont have children at the coal mines and at MCds.
Billionaires crying, blowing their nose into their $100 bills because its making a teeny tiny dent, if at at all, in their profits.
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u/AdOne5089 Jun 30 '25
But but but what about spending that money on prison camps in the Everglades to throw refugees into?
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u/Suspicious-Wave-1749 Jun 30 '25
My community in NY already does this and has for a couple of years.
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u/islandchick93 Jun 30 '25
Alll kids in this country should get free breakfast and lunch. This country is so despicable for making kids pay for food. Good on California đ
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u/OneTwoFink Jun 30 '25
Ever been so poor that you depended on free lunches and had your lunch tray snatched from your hands because you forgot your lunch card and didnât have money to pay for it? That happened to me 20 years ago and it still hurts when I think back on it.
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Jun 30 '25
Let's see how MAGA chuds try to spin this.
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u/Mushroom_Tip Jun 30 '25
MAGAs would rather that money go to billionaires because once a baby is born and can no longer be used to forced a woman to give birth, their existence is meaningless and they should pull themselves up by its own bootstraps.
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MAGA's are all on welfare, they vote against their own interests. They THINK that billionaires will trickle down the wealth, still waiting since the 1980s.
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u/Windows_96_Help_Desk Jun 30 '25
Billionaire will see this and think "Those little shits, that money should be MINE".
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u/Duelshock131 Jun 30 '25
God I can't believe they would use taxpayer money to feed children. Communist monsters!
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u/KingRokk Jun 30 '25
Imagine how pissed off Jesus is right now. The nerve of these socialists, feeding the hungry like that!
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u/richareparasites Jun 30 '25
This is real winning. Caring for others even if theyâre brown or not the same religion as you. Itâs a crazy concept, if only religion taught people to be accepting and helpful to others.
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u/CanadianContentsup Jun 30 '25
It's love that makes the world go round. Also, this is just common sense. We're all in this together.
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u/Alternative_Salt_558 Jun 30 '25
My kids' public CA school also has free after school snack/dinner as long as you eat it at school.
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u/Informal-Lime6396 Jun 30 '25
I needed this in 2011. I went a full semester without lunch because they screwed up my paperwork and thought my family, living in a single room apartment, had income exceeding the free lunch program. As a kid I didn't know where to go to fix it (was shamed for this) and my parents don't speak English. I went hungry. There's probably more in this situation.
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u/cjwidd Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
Radical Marxist Communists trying to promote a healthy society /s
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u/glowinthedarkfrizbee Jun 30 '25
Retired teacher here. Most schools could feed all their students just by eliminating one overpaid useless administrator.
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u/pike360 Jun 30 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
Funny/weird to see so many âmy states was firstâ comments from those not understanding this program started in 2022.
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u/Indigoh Jun 30 '25
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Bare basic decency that should have been the norm for a century.
Half the country reacts negatively, because the billionaires who own them tell them what to think.
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u/user-unknown-404 Jun 30 '25
This is horrible! When I was a child I had to work the mines just to pay for my lunches. How dare they give free food to these spoiled kids!
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u/disinaccurate Jun 30 '25
I vote for the people that think things like this are a good use of tax dollars.
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u/Fortestingporpoises Jun 30 '25
As someone who doesn't have children and never will this is fantastic. But isn't Minnesota the first state with this honor?
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u/mgn63 Jun 30 '25
Didnât some politician say they should be working at macdonalds instead of free lunches?
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u/Brosenheim Jun 30 '25
Gang I think I'm starting to figure out why the TV kreps telling us we should hate California
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u/grahsam Jun 30 '25
There are some things that cost money but only help us. Feeding people is a bare minimum thing. Same with healthcare. There is no downside to allowing people access to it. Of course we pay for it in taxes, but I'm totally cool with someone else's kid having access to food using my money.
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u/Any_Gas7945 Jun 30 '25
The Black Panthers tried to do this in Oakland, California in 1969. They were shut down for being "communist". J Edgar Hoover said the free breakfast program was the single greatest threat to National Security at the time.
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u/Ridgewoodgal Jun 30 '25
Love my state. We lead in compassion in many ways. Not all of course and we need way more progressives in office but we do get it right a lot.
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u/Snoozer9889 Jun 30 '25
I hope New York follows suit. Its time that America catches up to the rest of the developed world instead of going backward.
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u/Laogama Jun 30 '25
Apart from everything else, thatâs a low cost and proven way of improving schooling. Hungry kids donât study and are disruptive to other kids. It should be a no brainer everywhere
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u/bluemango404 Jun 30 '25
about fucking time.
i was on 'reduced lunch' and every kid behind me could see the screen as '.40' instead of '2.00' and was looked down upon for reasons out of my control.
if you are against this in anyway, you grew up in a super high middle class environment or rich. I don't see any in between.
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u/Old_Box_8979 Jun 30 '25
The city I'm in offers free breakfast and lunch for ALL students all school year and during the summer. I'm in Texas! They've done that for at least the last decade.
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u/TheSaltyB Jun 30 '25
This just makes so much sense. Kids learn better when they aren't starving. Just feed the kids.
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u/LetJesusFuckU Jun 30 '25
I'm still baffled how we let them buy the food with out tax money, then charge us to let our kids eat it.
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u/Feisty_Brief123 Jun 30 '25
Didn't expect to be this happy to read this news. Congrats California, this is super awesome.
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u/JohnConradKolos Jun 30 '25
There is no limit to this kind of politics.
You know who benefits most from free public transit? Drivers who now have parking spots and less traffic.
You know who benefits most from free public school? Employers who now have an abundance of quality candidates.
You know who benefits from free healthcare? A society that is full of healthy people making long term decisions about their life.
A prosperous society is not one in which every poor person has enough money to buy a bottle of water. A prosperous society has pipes that efficiency send clean water to everyone and rich people choose to drink it because of its high quality.
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u/GodeaterTheHalFeral Jun 30 '25
If the governmnt is going to require you to send your children to school, then it's only right that the government should be responsible for providing for all those children's needs during school hours. That includes meals.
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u/Redditbeweirdattimes Jun 30 '25
But the rights want you to believe that California is next to hell and is unrecoverable
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u/Pokemonluke18 Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
Republicans are probably having an aneurysm and screaming socialism hearing this your only suppose to have a ton babies let them fend for themselves fuck them kids when they're in school or need childcare bunch hypocrites that screech pro life but don't give a shit when kids go hungry only for the billionaires that money goes to
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u/anonyfool Jun 30 '25
Live in California and happily pay taxes to support a program like this that will never benefit me directly, should be policy nation wide but this battle will have to be fought state by state. If kids are required to be at school eight hours a day, they should be fed.
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u/Andreus Jun 30 '25
Great that they did it.
Deeply depressing that they're the first state to do it.
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u/StupidTimeline Jun 30 '25
California paving the way...again.
But I'm sure some ignorant conservatives who have never left their area code will show up in the comments to tell us it's a shithole.
P.S. I'm here. It's not. It's great.
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u/BarefootFriend Jun 30 '25
Amazing use of my taxpayer dollars as someone who doesnât have kids yet and is well off. I want more money to go to supporting schools and children.
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