A bunch of Senate Democrats have offered a invoice that might wipe out pupil meal debt for children throughout the US.
Fetterman stated there are greater than 30 million children within the U.S. who can’t have the funds for faculty foods and that the nationwide public faculty meal debt is $262 million a yr.
“‘Faculty lunch debt’ is a time period so absurd that it shouldn’t even exist,” Fetterman stated in a press liberate on Monday. “That’s why I’m proud to introduce this invoice to cancel the country’s pupil meal debt and forestall humiliating children and penalizing starvation.”
The brand new invoice would erase pupil lunch debt through directing the Division of Agriculture to pay for all money owed owed to colleges for lunch and breakfast techniques.