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A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school's meal debt (www.cnn.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honesty surprised the school didn't refuse the money. It's happened before.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In Iowa the governor refused free no strings attached federal money to help pay for underprivileged kids' lunches. Her reason? "There's an obesity epidemic".

Republican states read like an actual onion article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hence "not the onion" subreddit and Lemmy instance