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Districts Look To Debt Collectors, Stricter Policies, For Unpaid Lunches

Posted 05.15.2012

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Americans are likely hearing from debt collectors more in recent years than in the past, but a practice that may become even more common: debt collect...

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Mandated Contraceptives: The Tragedy of the Sexless Law Student

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Sterlization, Free Lunch, Religion, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, First Amendment, Contraceptives, Obamacare, Barack Obama, Abortifacients, Health Insurance, First Amendment Rights, Birth Control, Economic Liberty, Health Care Mandates, Politics News
Doug Bandow

Leave it to radio personality Rush Limbaugh to turn a serious policy issue into a personal attack. But the moral character of Sandra Fluke doesn't matter. What should worry the rest of us is her apparent belief that we all are obligated to make sure that she can have sex for free.

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A Season of Giving? Apparently Not.

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Food Insecurity, Feeding America, Holidays, Hunger, Child Hunger, Children, Scrooge, Free-Lunch, Holiday Season, Charity, Charitable Giving, Charities, Impact News
Vicki B. Escarra

The economic hardships of a nation are felt most by its people. It baffles me not only that some people cannot grasp that reality, but that they so quickly demonize people who are suffering due to economic circumstances beyond their control.

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Line Grows Long For Free Meals At U.S. Schools

The New York Times | Sam Dillon | Posted 01.30.2012

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Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have los...

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UK Chefs, Farmers Salvage 'Wonky' Veggies, Cook Up Stew For 5,000

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Valentine Warner, British Chefs, Trafalgar Square, Food Waste, Discarded Food, British Farmers, Free Lunch, Impact News

Instead of letting "wonky" carrots and cauliflower go to waste, a group of British charities and farmers whipped up a vegetable stew to feed 5,000 peo...

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WATCH Pulitzer Prize Winner: Huge Corporate Subsidies Lead To Middle Class 'Wealth Destruction'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniel Gross, Free Lunch, David Cay Johnsotn, Tax Subsidies, Middle Class, Bailouts, Cabelas, Video, Business News

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston says it's no accident that the middle class has been shrinking. In fact, in a recent conversatio...

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La. Law Targets Parents Who Owe Money For School Lunches

FoxNews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Louisiana School Lunches, Child Neglect, School Meals, Poverty, Nancy Landry, Free Lunch, School Lunches, Education News

It's a good, old-fashioned food fight. Parents in Louisiana who can afford to pay for their children's school lunch -- and whose kids go three strai...

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