Scary Mommy - Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos joked “free lunch” during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“I’m Betsy DeVos. You may have heard some of the ‘wonderful’ things the mainstream media has called me lately,” she said. “I, however, pride myself on being called a mother, a grandmother, a life partner, and perhaps the first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
The National School Lunch Act, which provides free and reduced-cost lunches to more than 31 million kids in U.S. public schools is currently facing huge changes, thanks to Republicans, who want to make it harder for families to qualify for free and reduced-cost meals for their kids at school. The program has existed since 1946, when it was signed into law by then-President Harry S. Truman, and it has since become vital to the success of many students — the nonprofit No Kid Hungry says that about 13 million kids in the U.S. struggle with hunger, and for many of them, free lunch at school is the only meal they can count on during the day.
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