Morning all — it’s the first day of school here today, so momma will be a little busy. Hope everyone is having a decent start to their week…

G’Morning, Christy. It’s, uh, a little too early to tell yet here. But, I’ve very hopeful. I have a job interview at the gym at 8:00 am and I’m so excited I couldn’t stay in bed.
I’m happy for all of the children who will get two meals a day now, and an education. Let’s have a big cheer for all the teachers out there. Hip, hip, hurrah.

Best of luck and more power to you, demi!
and what fun for the Peanut!

I’m sitting here remembering all of the First Day(s) of school. My parents were not all that well off, but they budgeted well and we always had a few new dresses and pairs of shoes. The excitement of who the teachers would be. Who would you be sitting next to. Seeing how much everyone grew over the summer. Anyone else remember the smells of the first day of school?

My Peanut went excitedly to her first day of Kindergarten last week. I think her enthusiasm was catching to her older siblings, even our oldest who spent his first day in High School.

Thank you for highlighting child poverty issues. As a teacher it breaks my heart to see how many start out so young so far behind.

Thanks Christy for your commitment to kids in poverty. It’s inspiring.

There’ s a National Day of Action sponsored by SlowFoodsUSA on Labor Day to raise awareness of the fact that the National Child Nutrient Act is up for renewal this fall. They have a an acampaign organized and here’s a link to Get Involved.

Here the policy page for the FarmtoSchool.org organization. They have national and state by state policy fact sheets for more local involvement for people to become advocates about policy.

On the bright side, at least the Goldman Sachs execs aren’t missing any meals.

We pony up a 12+ Trillion dollar commitment to the (so-called) “financial services industry” but there are children who need public assistance just so they can afford a decent breakfast before school?

This really pisses me off. Grrrrrrr………..

Here’s another advocacy group Community Food Security Collation links page with an extensive collection of groups that people can get involved with.

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Just called LIEberman’s office to tell him he can vote for MEDICARE for all IF congress took the cap off FICA as well as afford my grandchilren AFFORDABLE college!
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The aid said traffic was heavy this AM!

After giving him my name and address (I’m a constituent who voted for Lamont!) I told the sympathetic person I spoke with that he was most deceptive and I wish CT would impeach him!

USDA National Hunger Clearinghouse

The USDA National Hunger Clearinghouse collects and distributes information about community-based resources and government programs that address the immediate and long-term needs of struggling families and individuals. The National Hunger Clearinghouse is paid for by contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and managed by WHY (World Hunger Year). The Clearinghouse collects and distributes information through the following ways:

These are the way they distribute information, Hotline _(1-866-3 HUNGRY), a newsletter and a database.

First day of school here today, too. My peanut is starting 2nd grade but there were a few new kids starting kindergarten at the bus stop this year — with tearful younger siblings in tow. (They were mostly fine until the bus showed up and they weren’t getting on it!)

No phone calls from the teacher yet. So far, so good!

got my fingers crossed for you, (((demi)))). let us know what happens.

We pony up a 12+ Trillion dollar commitment to the (so-called) “financial services industry” but there are children who need public assistance just so they can afford a decent breakfast before school?

What he said. Our government has been acting on priorities that are backwards – more money for those that don’t need more and two wars plus incursions into Pakistan and many other countries that often mainly benefit the defense contractors and cause harm and suffering to everyone else. Spending all that money on people in real need would probably take care of everyone. We need justice. My prayers every day are for us to have leaders in this world who are truly leading for the benefit of the people.

I went from 1st grade until 7th grade with very little if ever any breakfast. Never lunch.

Never. Not ever. None.

At the time I used to be absolutely amazed when I saw lunch bags and boxes open and food come out. Used to wonder what kind of people could live like that.

TBoy

I was on reduced lunch (lunch was $1, I paid $0.10) all throughout elementary school. This taught me a very important lesson:

Being poor sucks.

I think this alone goes a long way to explain why three out of four of us siblings chose to not have any kids of our own.

My sister works for a school district in Florida as one of their caterers, but she started out working in the lunch rooms… but even as a caterer she was involved in their summer-time feeding programs. Her district would try to set up programs in summer, too, in order to have a way to feed kids who would need it.

I’m wondering, now, given the budget crises in so many states, if they are still able to do that. I”ll have to call and ask her.

We share alot of those very similar memories….SO? How did it go? I’ll check back later B

All the kids on the reservation are on the school lunch program. There are some families that don’t need to be but because the percentage is so high every kid gets it. Some kids come in very hungry on Monday mornings.