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Chobani Yogurt Company Helps Pay Lunch Debt for Warwick, RI, Schoolchildren [Updated]
Rhode Island’s Warwick Public Schools faced controversy earlier this week when the district announced that students with unpaid lunch balances would be denied hot food. Now yogurt brand Chobani is stepping up to pay off almost $48,000 of the $77,000 worth of student debts, CNN reports. In what many have called a method of shaming…
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Rhode Island School District Accused of Punishing Children with Cold Sandwiches for Outstanding Lunch Debts
Each of us have fond memories of gossiping with our homegirls or talking hoops with our homeboys over whatever delicious feasts our school cafeterias served up that day. As a teenager, Taco Salad Day was all the fuel I needed for those infamous rap battles in the school courtyard, and you’re a liar if you…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: No Free Lunch
This is a terrible time for our country. Our president has the IQ of a third-place Wheel of Fortune contestant. Hurricanes are making it rain across the United States like they’re Floyd Mayweather in a strip club. Kim Jong Un is strapping nuclear warheads on the backs of bottle rockets. Jason Whitlock has a brand-new…
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Michelle Obama to Trump Administration on School Lunch: ‘What Is Wrong With You?’
Michelle Obama had a few words for those in the Trump administration who are trying to undo her work when it comes to making sure children are provided with healthy school lunches. On Friday, while speaking at an annual health conference, the former and forever first lady criticized the current administration for delaying federal rules…