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When classes resume after Labor Day, Amber Lightfeather won t have to worry about where her children s next meals will be coming from. They ll be free.Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont, Michigan, and Massachusetts will make school breakfasts and lunches permanently free to all students starting this academic year, regardless of family income, following in the footsteps of California and Maine. Several other states are considering similar changes and congressional supp
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orters want to extend free meals to all kids nationwide.Lightfeather, who has four kids who attend public schools in Duluth, Minnesota, said her family has sometimes qualified for free or reduced-price meals but would have had to pay in the upcoming school year if Minnesota had not made
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the change. Her earnings as a hospital worker and her husband s as a tribal employee would have put them over the limit. Last year, the family was paying over $260 a month for school meals for all four kids, who are at the hungry ages of 10, 13, 16 and 17.She felt so strongly that she testified for Minnesota s school lunch bill when it came before the Legislature last winter. Students hugged Gov. Tim Walz, a former teacher, when he signed it into law at their Minneapolis elementary school in March
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. I was crying when I found out that they finally passed it. I didn t just go and testify for my own kids. I testified for every kid who could benefit, Lightfeather said.Schools nationwide offered free meals to all at the height o Owvz Baltimore sues ghost gun maker, state ban begins
MILWAUKEE COUNTY -- 鈥?The pandemic and the isolation that comes with it has been hard for so many. But for older adults who depend on family, caregivers, or t
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ake up the majority of what the county investigates, and in most categories, there s an increase when you compare reports from the year before.Here is data provided by the Milwa
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ukee County Department on Aging:Preliminary data for 2020463 self-neglect cases323 financial abuse cases 170 neglect cases Data from 2019589 self-neglect cases238 financial abuse cases 146 neglect cases People are isolated, and we re not getting to them as soon as possible, LaCaze said. The more I m alone, the more I want to be alone. I start to become anti-social almost, said 71-year-old Nancy Koch of West Allis.Koch knows all about that isolation, and she isn t surprised to hear these statistics. I have yet to get sucked into anything like that, and I hope I don t,