Increase funding for the military?

Repeal, replace or leave the Affordable Care Act alone?

Defund Meals on Wheels for the elderly?

Cut back on school meal funding?

Every week of this new presidential administration has raised unsettling questions.

As Congress wrestles with such issues it might help to look back at why Congress passed the National School Lunch Act in 1946.

Individual school lunch programs emerged in the 1930s as communities grappled with the fact that many children in school did not have enough to eat as their families struggled during the Depression.

Communities came together to provide school lunches not because studies said children might do better in school if they were fed. They simply saw it as a moral imperative to not let children go hungry.

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