{"id":1030432,"date":"2023-03-19T16:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e55908e8dc0ea955bb10a74945297c45"},"modified":"2023-03-19T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:49:45","slug":"minnesota-becomes-4th-state-to-provide-free-meals-to-all-kids-at-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/19\/minnesota-becomes-4th-state-to-provide-free-meals-to-all-kids-at-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Becomes 4th State to Provide Free Meals to All Kids at Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded by students, teachers, and advocates, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday afternoon signed into law a bill to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to all of the state&rsquo;s roughly 820,000 K-12 pupils regardless of their household income. The move to make Minnesota the fourth U.S. state to guarantee universal free school meals &mdash; joining California, Maine...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/minnesota-becomes-4th-state-to-provide-free-meals-to-all-kids-at-public-schools\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/minnesota-becomes-4th-state-to-provide-free-meals-to-all-kids-at-public-schools\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let this serve as a reminder that poverty is a policy choice,&#8221; said one advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14429,6981,6039,5665,526,4,20813,34525,57293],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030433,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030432\/revisions\/1030433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}