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"We have an embarrassing wealth of food" Who's this "we"? 40% of school children have free/reduced lunch due to poverty.
by VLM 11y ago
"We have an embarrassing wealth of food"
Who's this "we"? 40% of school children have free/reduced lunch due to poverty.
- marknutter 11y agoSorry, I should have given the proper context in my original post, but I mean we have an embarrassing wealth of food compared to past generations. Yes, it sucks that some children have less than others, but when compared to children from past generations they're doing much better.
- fennecfoxen 11y agoMy mother will gladly relate to you how her family was never really poor growing up: the really poor kids came to school with Crisco sandwiches. There was no free or reduced-price school lunch.
- jbob2000 11y agoRight, but 100 years ago, those kids would just starve to death, rather than get state assistance.
- flubert 11y agoAnyone have statistics for number of starvation deaths in 1915 in the U.S.?