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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I always see as the pitch for all of this is that low-income kids can't learn without x y z. For ex, hungry kids don't pay attention then have low test scores. So, are these fully fed kids now learning more, which will qualify them for jobs, or not?[/quote]

WHAT jobs?   Do we have some abundance of decent paying working class jobs?

The reason people are in poverty working for Walmart and McDonalds isn't that they had low test scores in high school.  It's that these jobs do not pay a living wage.

Even if Walmart hired only valedictorians with high SATs to work 29 hours a week at minimum wage, those smartypants students would still be poor.[/quote]

I think the idea is you give kids food today so they are not hungry and can learn.  They do better in school and on tests.  Then they go to college or trade school and get a job that pays a living wage.

So the question is—is this happening?  Are the kids that are graduating now and have had the benefit of free meals going going to college or trade school?[/quote]

I think it's happening. I hear stories about "the first one in the family to go to college" all the time, successful adults who had food stamps as a kid, and other similar things. It's just not happening in huge waves because poverty creates a huge minefield that students have to get through. It's not just about having enough food to eat, doing homework, ect. It's about staying out of trouble because there isn't a fancy lawyer to keep them out of jail, staying away from the easy access to drugs, not getting pregnant, not getting depressed and giving up, not getting randomly killed, ect. These programs are more "slow and steady" vs. "wham-bam bibbidi-bobbidi fixed".[/quote]

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