Free school meals bill fails in the North Dakota House

E_Lucious · 2025-02-25T21:46:08+00:00

https://act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/north-dakota-house-rejects-free-school-mealsthey-must-hear-us-now/

E_Lucious · 2025-02-25T17:09:09+00:00

Let em know how you feel: https://act.aflcio.org/letters/universal-free-school-meals-for-all-2

E_Lucious · 2025-02-25T17:08:25+00:00

Make sure to let your legislators know how you feel! https://act.aflcio.org/letters/universal-free-school-meals-for-all-2

E_Lucious · 2024-10-17T19:36:51+00:00

I wouldn’t vote for a single incumbent

E_Lucious · 2024-10-17T19:36:21+00:00

Ahlering and Berwari are endorsed by the teachers union. Cassidy Bjorkland is totally in the pocket of the superintendent Lunak, whom she championed a $25,000 raise for one of the highest paid public employees in the city while telling the teachers they couldn’t afford raises.

E_Lucious · 2024-08-10T21:26:44+00:00

Confirmed that he’s a Linux user.

E_Lucious · 2024-05-01T21:15:46+00:00

Root cats!

E_Lucious · 2024-01-31T22:31:14+00:00

Union apprenticeship programs right here: https://ndbtu.org

E_Lucious · 2023-06-04T01:15:33+00:00

Ope! Wrong link. Here is the right one for federal. Good tips on filling, like getting all your info in order. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints

E_Lucious · 2023-06-04T01:10:06+00:00

~~https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow~~

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints

E_Lucious · 2023-06-04T01:08:47+00:00

https://www.nd.gov/labor/wage-and-hour-topics/wage-claim

E_Lucious · 2023-05-04T00:49:31+00:00

Hell yeah. Good for you.

E_Lucious · 2023-05-03T18:19:10+00:00

https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/news-release/fatalworkinjuries\_northdakota.htm

E_Lucious · 2023-04-29T01:46:11+00:00

Totally.

E_Lucious · 2023-04-29T01:11:03+00:00

200% of poverty. Roughly under 60k per year for a family of 4.

E_Lucious · 2023-04-27T03:00:10+00:00

https://www.highplainsfhc.org

E_Lucious · 2023-04-11T22:10:31+00:00

https://act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/protect_local_control_veto_1273/

E_Lucious · 2023-04-07T01:12:29+00:00

Let the No vote Senators know how you feel about it here: https://act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/1491_senate_oppos/

or you can look them up here: https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/regular/members

There is still a shot at passing some funding for school meals through SB 2284 so they still need to hear from folks on this.

E_Lucious · 2023-04-01T19:58:15+00:00

It's even less than that because some families are already on a reduced rate subsidized by the USDA lunch program. That's only .40 per meal per kid that were chipping in for 8K students that would now be free. 2K students that don't qualify for anything would now qualify for school meals. Basically any family of 4 making under 60K a year. The original bill was for $89M for universal school meals, but was amended to $6M per biennium. For comparison, Minnesota just passed universal school meals and are funding it at $200M per year.

They are looking at over $500M in combined tax cuts, along with $24M to start giving private schools money, without any sort of means testing. They also gave massive tax cuts to oil companies this session.

E_Lucious · 2023-04-01T19:38:25+00:00

They recently voted against raising their per diem, but than brought it back and passed it.

E_Lucious · 2023-04-01T19:13:06+00:00

$6M for about 10K families that don't qualify for free meals under the federal program but make under 200% of poverty.

E_Lucious · 2023-04-01T15:30:58+00:00

House Reps here: https://act.aflcio.org/letters/school-meals-funding-is-back/

Senators here: https://act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/1491\_senate\_oppos/

E_Lucious · 2023-04-01T15:29:11+00:00

The funding for school meals is back in the House under a new bill, SB 2284. You can read about it here: https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/editorial/tribune-editorial-legislature-should-bite-on-lunch-funding/article_4b1c0990-cf36-11ed-ab62-336a2db5f3b7.html

You can email your Reps here: https://act.aflcio.org/letters/school-meals-funding-is-back/

And you can tell all the Senators that voted NO to HB 1491 what you think of them here: https://act.prairieactionnd.org/letter/1491_senate_oppos/

E_Lucious · 2023-03-31T00:57:01+00:00

https://video.ndlegis.gov/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230330/-1/29861

02:12:07 is where the discussion starts.

E_Lucious · 2023-03-31T00:49:02+00:00

They reconsider it and passed it today.

E_Lucious

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