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What might economic policy look like under a Harris-Walz administration?

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Nic Perez
Aug 7, 2024
Relatively unknown on the national stage, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has helped push through policies like universal free meals at school and a statewide child tax credit.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, at a Philadelphia rally on Tuesday.
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For 2 years, there was such a thing as a free lunch — at public schools. Not anymore.

by Stephanie Hughes
Aug 18, 2022
The pandemic relief program that provided free meals was an outlier in the 75-year history of the federal school lunch program.
The federal government's universal free school lunch program has expired, though the idea is popular with parents.
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School lunches aren't free to everyone anymore. Some advocates think they should be.

by Samantha Fields
Jun 30, 2022
There are a lot of benefits to making school lunch and other social benefits more universal. But, yes, it's expensive to do.
Despite the popularity of universal free lunches during the pandemic, lawmakers allowed the program to expire.
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