COMMENTARY

Commentary: Turning down food assistance for poor children is shockingly callous

15 right-wing governors are shamefully refusing federal aid meant to feed hungry kids.

By Jim Hightower, Guest Columnist
Posted 2/15/24

This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for poverty-stricken ragamuffins.” …

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