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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
Seeing a lot of "this story is depressing not inspiring!" And yeah. Here's an actually inspiring story you may not know about: school lunch (and breakfast!) in Massachusetts is free for all students starting in 23-24 thanks to Democrats using money from the voter-passed millionaire's tax to fund it
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Food Data Nerd
@fooddatanerd.com
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And thanks to tireless activism from citizens and groups like Project Bread, demanding for years for universal free school meals after the nationwide program came to an end.
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conner
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hasn't MA already undermined all of this going forward with their new gov cutting taxes for the rich?
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BA ❄️
@bafairbend.bsky.social
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Maine was one of the first states to pass legislation providing free school lunches to all students after pandemic-era funding expired! Yay Maine
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Dalton
@daltonherriott.bsky.social
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But think of all of the benefits that would trickle down to these children if we cut the tax rate for millionaires
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🍉 I Love Pets Four Hundred Twenty
@ilovepets420.bsky.social
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I hope they're using the dollars from the millionaires tax to pay for it. I get that's not how it works but it should.
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Elaine
@spencerela.bsky.social
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We require kids to be there. We should be required to feed them no cost.
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TeeJay Ach
@pragmaticleftist.bsky.social
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@mhkmhk.bsky.social
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I honestly think we as a state should have sessions for in state millionaires about how they live in a state where kids don't go hungry at school and the train works and they should be proud of that. Like a real pat on the back, build a sense of honor in the community. If that helps reduce whining.
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Soobee
@soobeeinny.bsky.social
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None of these stories should be written without mentioning how completely wrong it is that it was necessary
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Shaenon K. Garrity
@shaenon.bsky.social
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California's got free breakfast and lunch! In the morning my kid's school passes out food on the playground to anyone who wants it.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's worth considering why a news story about a handful of kids getting their school lunch debt retired in Missouri from charity is considered CNN headline worthy news and millions of kids getting lunch for free via taxing millionaires is not headline news for CNN!
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
@mu-peter.bsky.social
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Republican Jesus
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Lew Morton
@lewmorton.bsky.social
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Los Angeles too, baby.
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Avocadoplex
@avocadoplex.bike
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Minnesota also passed free school lunch for all last year!
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David Weiskopf
@weiskopf.bsky.social
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Also CA:
calbudgetcenter.org/resources/un....
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Steph White
@stephwhitemi.bsky.social
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Someone may have ready posted this, but NYTimes has an article about free lunches spreading How Free School Meals Went Mainstream www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/h...
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Steph White
@stephwhitemi.bsky.social
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Michigan, too.
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Rich Gardner
@rlgardner190.bsky.social
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All praise and kudos to the kid. What he did was awesome. But yeah, the problem he tackled shouldn't exist in the first place.
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Francis
@datafran.bsky.social
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Despite our disappointment of a Governor trying to give all that money back instead.
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accattone
@accattone.bsky.social
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Colorado passed one as well.
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RPG Imaginings
@rpgimaginings.bsky.social
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In Nebraska, we gave out free lunch during the pandemic and then immediately reversed it after.
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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Ditto Minnesota.
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Amy
@amygalford.bsky.social
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I think Vermont public schools have free breakfast and lunch. And try to use local products.
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Paddyboy
@hodag1977.bsky.social
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That recently passed MA millionaires tax deserves a lot more attention from the media - taxing the rich is a popular policy!
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
@ericallyn.bsky.social
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One of the things I appreciate about many (most?) of these programs - speaking as a Massachusetts taxpayer - is that *all* children can take advantage of the programs. No paperwork to prove "need", no income eligibility cutoff cliffs, none of that shit. 1/x
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Kenny Johnson
@goondocks.bsky.social
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California also has free school lunches for all students.
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Disaster Millennial
@disastermillennial.bsky.social
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now THAT is an incredible story
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Mike MacFerrin
@icesheetmike.bsky.social
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Colorado did the same, passed in 2022. Kids haven’t paid a penny for breakfast or lunch at public schools in CO since.
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
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Dan Fellars
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Illinois also has free breakfast and lunch for all students, though it isn’t properly funded. My school district (which is massively overfund due to high taxes imposed by the courts (desegregation)) has used their surplus to pay for school breakfast and lunch for the last 5 years.
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The Desert Sage
@thedesertsage.bsky.social
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Has state GOP introduced a bill to ban paying off school lunch accounts yet?
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Cindy McCrackan 🧜♀️
@cindym.bsky.social
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Massachusetts is a pretty great place to live.
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Maia
@maiainmi.bsky.social
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Michigan public schools also provide free breakfast and lunch for all students. Yep, the Democrats are in control now.
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Sarah Gioia
@sarahgioia.bsky.social
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Minnesota, too, thanks to the Democratic trifecta!
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Justin Noormand
@justin-noormand.bsky.social
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“A Missouri 5th grader did what his god-forsaken state will not.”
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@drpepsi.bsky.social
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MA instituted a Millionaire’s Tax and it worked beyond anyone’s estimations and none of the millionaires have fled the state as the right wing cranks predicted.
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Ron Hebshie
@ronthinkmedia.bsky.social
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And this just happened here. Also worth noting: The state continues to have some of the most robust and free career advancement, re-education and adult re-training programs in the country. www.wcvb.com/article/mass...
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@shadysullivan.bsky.social
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Also California
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Becca Patterson
@mreauow.bsky.social
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Minnesota made all school lunches free for all this past school year. It's a good thing.
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@yozootoo.bsky.social
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WTF is an elementary school meal debt, and how do they let that be a thing?
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Keith Gillum
@bluedreambook.bsky.social
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This is genuinely heartwarming.
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@lombos.bsky.social
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Maine has had free school meals for all kids since 2021 - breakfast, lunch and summer meals program. A Dem governor and legislature, of course!
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Tamara Keel
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Actual bathroom graffiti in my neighborhood watering hole. I love it here.
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@javanaise.bsky.social
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how do you build a compliant workforce? you start at the beginning, by letting the children know their very existence has a cost, which someone must pay for. keep the parents underemployed and underpaid and soon, the children will *ask* to be allowed to work for miserly wages.
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Meg Eaton
@megeaton.bsky.social
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If a kid's lunch debt was too big, they'd have to step out of the hot lunch line and get a PB&J from supplies the kind lunch ladies kept in the kitchen. Michigan Dems just passed a free lunch law so thankfully those days are over here.
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Elizabeth Tamny
@etamny.bsky.social
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Honestly so exciting
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TK
@40goingon28.bsky.social
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The sentence “Kids can now eat without breaking the piggy bank” is so bleak and Dickensian
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@lfccinti.bsky.social
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Good on the kid, but this is a societal failure.
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jonnoh
@jhatman.bsky.social
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Amazing! Good job young man. Also, he never should've had to do it. We are collectively failing future generations.
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Justin Buist
@justinbuist.bsky.social
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I don't understand people against feeding kids at school with tax money. There's a lot of stuff tax money goes to that I don't care for but "feeding kids" is not one that should piss anybody off. I can't think of anything I'd put higher up on the list of Good Reasons to Pay Taxes.
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