Does Free School Lunches Promote Social Equity, or Create Another Form of "Uniform Inequality"? - TNL The News Lens Key Commentary

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This article argues that universally free school lunches, while achieving equality on a level playing field, could crowd out other children's and youth budgets and ignore fundamental issues such as food waste and meal costs. Rather than a blanket subsidy, the policy should return to the principle of fairness and pragmatically address existing problems, rather than becoming an election promise.