By Erin Durkin
All five of the city’s borough presidents are pushing Mayor de Blasio to offer free lunch to all public school kids.
The pols - Staten Island Republican Jimmy Oddo and Democrats Eric Adams
of Brooklyn, Gale Brewer of Manhattan, Melinda Katz of Queens and Ruben
Diaz Jr. of the Bronx - wrote a letter to de Blasio asking him to put
the cash in next year’s budget for universal free lunch.
Kids currently qualify for free lunch based on their income, but
backers of universal free lunch argue some end up going hungry because
they’re too embarrassed to take the freebies when others are paying.
“Students would, over time, feel less stigmatized by universal free
lunch and would be able to study without hunger. Families would feel an
immediate impact by not having to pay for lunch, or worry whether their
child was receiving the proper nutrition they need,” the borough
presidents wrote.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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