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Public schools have been serving all students free meals since the COVID-19 pandemic first disrupted K-12 education. In March 2022, Congress rejected calls to keep up the federal funding required to sustain that practice and left that money out of a US$1.5 trillion spending package that President Joe Biden signed into law on March 11, 2022. We asked food policy expert Marlene Schwartz to explain why free meals make a difference and what will happen next. How did the COVID-19 pandemic initially affect the school lunch program? In March 2020, nearly all U.S. K-12 school buildings closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the federal government’s National School Lunch Program, quickly granted waivers to increase program flexibility and accommo...

Conyers, who left office following sexual misconduct allegations, has been hailed as a "champion of civil rights". John Conyers, the longest serving African American congressman died in his Detroit home [File:Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press] Former US Representative John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, died on Sunday. He was 90. The former legislator died at his home in Detroit, said police spokesman Dan Donakowski. The death "looks like natural causes", Donakowski told the Associated Press news agency. Conyers had served as a congressman for more than 50 years before retiring in late 2017 amid sexual misconduct a...

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A Pandemic Solution Left Out Of A New Federal Spending Package – Schools Will Stop Serving Free Lunch To All Students

John Conyers, longest-serving black US congressman, dies at 90