London is handing out free meals for all primary school children

Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by binarymax on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:14PM (#34870223)

It’s programs like this that actually fill me with hope - that taxpayer money is used for something directly helpful to the people. I’d love to see similar progressive assistance enacted in more districts.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by lotsofpulp on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:37PM (#34870475)

Ideally, it will be subject to accountability, and the service will not be outsourced to some cheap company employing the lowest quality labor serving the lowest quality food.

I have seen that, and I would like the government to specify that all schools need to have kitchens or a central kitchen staffed by people employed by the government.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by password8 on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:16PM (#34870243)

Completely short term. It's a band-aid at best.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by PreachSoup on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:18PM (#34870276)

It's just food, we have plenty of it. What's a long term and non band-aid solution to let children eat?

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by wccrawford on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:38PM (#34870486)

Basically anything that enables their parents to feed them again instead. Nobody like taking handouts and they'd much rather take care of their own families instead.

Help them prosper via various different means and they'll be happier and healthier than taking government handouts 1 day at a time.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by vidarh on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:51PM (#34870630)

Feeding children is a proven way of increasing the educational attainment, and by extension in the long run enables more (future) parents to prosper.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by mjmahone17 on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:11PM (#34870868)

Handouts are great and make our community better! I like taking handouts, and I love when the community, through guaranteed services, provides help taking care of my family.

I love the government handouts that pay for road maintenance right up to my home. And bus service so I don’t need to buy a car. I also love the public library near me, which is a handout that gives my community a rich place to go and participate in arts and reading groups without requiring me to spend a penny!

Handouts can help people prosper, and specifically children have no say in whether their parents have the means or motivation to meet their needs. We should help children prosper regardless of their parents, which means schools should provide free meals, laundry service, childcare for students’ younger siblings, etc. What “different means” would help students prosper than ensuring their needs are met?

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by chriswarbo on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:14PM (#34870892)

> Nobody like taking handouts and they'd much rather take care of their own families instead.

Interesting; what are the sample size and 95% confidence intervals on the study you're citing?

> Help them prosper via various different means

Erm... that's exactly what's happening? This is not the entirety of the UK's economic policy.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by lm28469 on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:21PM (#34870978)

And let children go to school without food ? Sometimes the short term solution is necessary

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by denton-scratch on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:41PM (#34871235)

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by pleistocene on Monday February 20, 2023 @06:43PM (#34874439)

> Nobody like taking handouts and they'd much rather take care of their own families instead.

This hypothesis has been demonstrably untrue for a long time now. UN reports from 2019-2022 consistently found Finland and Denmark to be the two happiest countries on Earth [1] and their governments provide some of the strongest welfare programs of any country [2].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Nordic_welfare_...

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by substation13 on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:22PM (#34870308)

If it is made into a permanent policy then it is long term.

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