Browsing All posts tagged under »welfare«

No safe bets: Revamping the school lunch program

June 14, 2012

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Thanks to a long-overdue overhaul by the USDA, school lunches are likely to look a lot different starting July 1. Here in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District — the nation’s fifth largest — is readying to implement new school lunch guidelines this fall. And it’s one tall order. As this well-written and insightful […]

Surviving on one sandwich a day… in America

May 9, 2012

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For a lot of people who have met me in the past decade or so, it might seem like I don’t know anything about poverty first-hand. After all, I’m a white, stay-at-home mom in the suburbs. It doesn’t get more stereotypically middle-class and conventional than that. But regular readers know I am anything but conventional. […]

The Walmart ruling

June 27, 2011

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I am beyond mad about The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to deny class-action status to the women suing Walmart for sex discrimination. The suit — representing 1.6 million women who worked at the company from 1998 — was the largest class-action suit in American history. In their 5-4 opinion (which outlined future restrictions on class-action […]

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