Rising food prices and labor shortages in the U.S. are hitting students hard, with many cafeterias unable to afford the meals students have come to expect. NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson spoke to one school district that claims the food costs to make a meal are up 80% since 2018.
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So nobody in America knows how to pack lunches anymore? Back in the stone age of the eighties there was something called making a sandwich 🥪 and putting it in something called a bag or a lunch box. I think somehow you could put liquid in a relic called a thermos
Flee market! Help the farmers, and veggies doesn’t last long so why can’t we use them in school meals?
@1:15 maybe it's for the best that you're not feeding growing children taquitos, pancakes and French toast 😂😂😂. America at its finest
Where I grew up we had to help with lunch serving and clean up. We also learned about nutrition, manners, food prep and safety, and the teachers ate with us.
It's ridiculous for sure! I will be glad to pay more school taxes knowing that children are eating well at least once per day! Sad that this world is coming to that! Sad for sure that we are cutting all of the wrong things!
TX always have the worst news!! My kids school in VA this year all kids eat FREE. Well stop sending money for Ukraine and support war isn’t yours. So embarrassing USA reporting news like this. 😠
Now we're expected to pay other peoples student loans off. When we're in a food shortage crisis and inflation has hit 40% increase.
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The REAL PROBLEM isn't the lunches, it the PARENTS who have children they CANT AFFORD. Please please please STOP HAVING CHILDREN if you are a broke a$$ donkey. It is NOT MY JOB as a tax payer to FEED YOUR CHILD.
USA's military spending in 2021 hit $801bn a year, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The government of this pathetic country called the USA should've been spending most of that on proper food for students, and the rest of it's citizens.
I can understand having to cut certain dishes due to spikes in ingredient prices. Like it or not, strawberries are not a staple food item that you absolutely must have regardless of the season.
However, the fact that staffing is so difficult indicates that there's either a problem with training or a problem with pay, and that's something the school administrators need to sort out ASAP.
My school had like two options anyway
All that food looks like trash anyway. We’re failing our children.
Thanks Biden
Wow And Churchill was considered one of the nicer schools in a nicer district..they need to put funds towards food and the teachers
Thanks joe
Absolutely unacceptable! All a part of the master plan.
It has never been a lack of money issue (property taxes keep raising, local/state/federal give out millions to school districts)..it has always been budgeting issue. School districts across the country waste money on useless projects, salary raises for administration staff, pet projects, etc..but never it makes it to the three groups that need it the most..teachers, cafeteria staff and bus drivers. The ones that actually make school work. This is and always has been the problem.
Thanks Joe
This is a problem that we as a society need to fix, I don't know the exact numbers but to a lot of our fellow Americans the school lunch is the most nutritious meal that they get LOL and some communities the only meal that they get
$12 billion in aid to the Ukraine
Little to no taxes paid by Billionaires
$1 billion more to militarizing the police
We don’t care about education or our children.
But y’all say y’all are Pro-LIFE
You know those kids that that's probably only know they're going to get that day. You're paying for the war in Ukraine but not for food for kids here in the United States. We see where the United States government's priorities are.