Going backwards on child poverty

The Indicator from Planet Money

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Business

4.7 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

School's out, and so are pandemic-era relief measures for families with children. But when universal free lunches and expanded child tax credits roll to a halt, what are the consequences?

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0:00.0	Before we get started, a quick ask.
0:02.3	NPR is doing its annual survey to better understand how listeners spend time with podcasts.
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0:11.6	It is a short anonymous survey.
0:13.4	You can do it at npr.org slash podcast survey, all one word.
0:17.4	Again, that's npr.org slash podcast survey.
0:20.8	Thanks.
0:21.8	NPR.
0:33.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:34.6	I'm Whalen Wong.
0:35.8	And I'm Adrian Mah.
0:37.0	Whalen, do you remember what school lunches were like when you were a kid?
0:40.6	I remember a lot of mozzarella sticks and also extreme anxiety over trying to get the milk
0:45.6	cartons open.
0:47.7	That was all of us, I think.
0:49.8	And I remember that and a lot of spongy trapezoidal pizza, which was delicious.
0:57.3	And even though I haven't thought about this in a long time, you know who thinks about
1:00.1	school lunch every day, Larry Wade senior.
1:04.8	That is because Larry is director of school nutrition services for Chesapeake Public Schools
1:09.0	in Virginia.
1:10.4	It is a huge school district with about 40,000 students.
1:14.2	And the menu in Larry's district goes way beyond trapezoidal pizza flavored sponges.
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