Free school meals are on the rise in the US − but that could change depending on who wins the 2024 presidential election

By Marlene B. Schwartz, Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
Juliana Cohen, Professor of Nutrition and Public Health, Merrimack College

Should all U.S. public school students be able to eat breakfast and lunch at no cost, regardless of their family’s income? The federal government temporarily made that possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, some states have taken it upon themselves to make it happen on a permanent basis. The Conversation U.S. asked Marlene B. Schwartz and Juliana…

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~	Indonesia’s BRICS agenda: 2 reasons Prabowo’s foreign policy contrasts with Jokowi’s

~	Rising Voices: Listening to the world on its own terms

~	Moldova has introduced a state of emergency in the energy sector

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~	El Salvador: A thousand days into the state of emergency. “Security” at the expense of human rights.

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