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| December 14, 2010 |
More "free" lunches thanks to Michelle's bloated "security" bill
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The New York Daily News reports:
More than two-thirds of New York City's public school students will begin getting more nutritious free or low-cost school lunches under First Lady Michelle Obama's pet project to get kids to eat well and exercise.
President Obama signed into law Sunday the $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which expands the free lunch program and requires that schools provide more nutritious lunches.
"We've seen the connection between what kids eat and how well they perform in school," he said.
Some 680,000 out of 1.1 million New York children participate in the school lunch program - a big chunk of the 16 million kids nationwide served by the program.
"While we may sometimes have our differences, we can all agree that in the United States of America no child should go to school hungry," the First Lady said.
The school nutrition overhaul includes New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's measure that ensures schools will be notified when food has been recalled.
"Now authorities will issue proper alerts to schools when contaminations occur and cafeteria workers across the country will be provided with better safety training so schoolchildren across the country will be much safer," Gillibrand said.
President Obama, meanwhile, made sure to give props to the First Lady, who has championed the cause of health and wellness in young people and has sought to elevate the need to combat childhood obesity.
"Had I not been able to get this bill passed, I would be sleeping on the couch," the President said at the signing ceremony at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in the District of Columbia.
Laughing, the First Lady responded: "We won't go into that. Let's just say it got done, so we don't have to go down that road." |
| 12/14/10 12:31 PM |
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