Do I think the system stinks, that people are dependent on handouts instead of doing something for what they're given? Of course. But that doesn't change what happened, and kids just might be going hungry.
In my town, they can go to any park in town for a taxpayer-funded lunch every day from when school gets out in May, to when it starts again in August.
Also, there are many food banks in the area who will give out emergency portions to anyone who asks. Trust me, I've been to the RoadRunner Food Bank in Albuquerque. It's bigger than the Cotstco, and full of food. Ain't nobody going to starve to death in New Mehico.
The “adults” in those places could have been pooling dollars, or collecting bottles to return, and putting that money in a pool to then go out to Costco or Sams’s Club and buying lots of canned goods and cereal, in anticipation of school getting out.
Then the ones that obviously aren’t working could create daily meals for the kids. Those kids could help “work” for that meal by doing chores for the most disabled and elderly.
But ideas like that are too old school.
Most school districts don’t stop the free breakfasts and lunches over the summer, they just move them to parks or the Boys and Girls Clubs or public libraries. They hand out food to anybody who shows up, no questions asked. You see moms sending their kids through the food lines multiple times to get extra meals for the adults and other kids. They stash them in their strollers and off they go. Some churches have even started cashing in and hold their vacation Bible schools and kids day camps in public parks and schedule their times around when the free food is going to be there, so they don’t have to provide food for their attendees, they just send them through the lines.
If there are kids going hungry in the US today, it’s because of parental abuse or neglect, not because some governmental program failed.
Senility is not also called a "second childhood" for nothing.
Bless your li'l ol' heart...
(I’m going to be somewhat sympathetic here. There are people who actually depend on food stamps. For families in many parts of the country, school is out for the summer)
You must be in a state that doesnt keep throwing the free food out there all year. In NM the free ride on taxpayercoattails is neverending.
And note the GOV caveat in that free food blurb.