and i had young children. so that limited the amount of time that i could work. so i worked predominantly lunches. as i m sure you know, lunches aren t the most profitable shift. you need to turn your tables over to make money. i was still getting paid on average $2.13 an hour. well, i think was $2.68 back in 1991 when i started. plus tips? plus tips. if we got a slow lunch, a whole hour would go by, no table, no tip. my paycheck would be eaten up by taxes and social security, there were times i made no money per hour. what did that mean for how you went about paying there s such a volatility? sure, every day was a crapshoot. every day at the end of the week, i d sit down with the money i made, had to make tough decisions. okay, this would go to rent. okay, we have to choose between the electric bill, gas bill or the phone, i would borrow left and right, just trying to
congress will pass a continuing resolution we expect in the next day. you can never predict for sure with these guys. we expect them to pass a continuing resolution that would essentially keep that program and most all other programs in government at the same level they were at last year. so it will be like a punt. and the next occasion to bring this up would be after congress returns after the elections. right now it looks like that s probably what will happen. wow. all right. we re going to stay on top of it, that s for sure. lisa, thanks so much. as it stands now, the federal government pays $2.68 per child per free lunch. so what kind of food can you get for that? take a look at these pictures. they re from a massachusetts teacher who s blog ago none musly as she sits alongside students in the cafeteria eating their school lunches for a year. pretty gross, huh? you re not alone in that feeling. usa today is investigating school meals for months. and these are just some of the h
what do you think would make the young people healthier and have them fit for military duty? we need healthy choices and need these whole grains and fruits and vegetables and increase the amount of money we spend daily on a child. right now it s $2.68 per meal. by adding money to the child nutrition act, we ll be able to increase the quality of the food that s served and push out the junk food and empty calories and result in a more healthy nation and reverse this trend. we ve got 39 states now that report 40% or more of young men and women in the ages of 17 to 24 as overweight. that struck me when you talk about that. bottom line, 75% of young adults ages 17 to 24 according to the studies you conducted are not eligible for military duty, may be because of obesity, lack of education, not graduating or a
ii pushed congress to enact the national school lunch program. well, they appear to be victims of their own success because now, according to this new study by mission readinesreadiness, af ex-military people, 27% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 are unfit for military duty because they re too fat. now, it s not exactly a problem at the moment because all of the services are up to the recruiting goals, but go down the road 15, 20 years, maybe to 2030, and it could become, according to mission readiness, a national security program. this morning we talked with retired air force lieutenant general norman sipe about the problem and asked him what needs to be done as far as school lunches go. well, we need healthy choiss. we need these whole grains. we need the fruits, we need the vegetables, those type of things, and we need to increase the amount of money we spend daily on the child. right now it s about $2.68 per meal. by adding money to the child
most. what struck me is everything comes out of a deep fat fryer. things like vegetables and whole grains aren t there. we re spending $2.68 on each individual out there. that s hard, pretty much a challenge for those in the lunch rooms. how are you justifying this is a threat to our national security, perhaps. the fact when you take 9 million children, ages 17 to 24 and add on those that don t have a high school education and those that have criminal records, that grows to 75% of the young men and women ages 17 to 24 are ineligible to join the military. at the end of the day, whether they join the military or not, it s important that if we re going to maintain a strong nation, be competitive in that global economy, we need a workforce out there that is fit and strong mentally and physically. all right. retired air force lieutenant