New York City may be littered with gluten-loving rats and paved with chicken bone highways, but if there's one thing the city's occasionally good at, it's policy.
The city's school Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently announced that free lunch would now be available to the city's 1.1 million students, regardless of income level. Previously, free lunch was only available to low income students who qualified.
The city's move comes after a series of articles sparked a nationwide outrage about "lunch-shaming," the practice of shaming kids — or requiring them to do labor — when they can't afford lunch. Read more...
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