you know, the issues of not having food in the summer as well. so, yeah, you know, it is an issue of money, but in the long run kids that are educated are going to perform well, they ear going to actually do well, pay tacks when they grow up, and so it s penny-wise and pound-foolish to start cutting these programs. and they re not going to be emotionally scarred and i don t say that lightly. tom collichio, jennifer harstein, thanks so much. coming up, nebraska, nebraska landowners. they are owed a debt of gratitude from the environmentalists all over the world who are concerned about global warming. they help blocked the keystone pipeline for now. what could this mean for the midterm elections? former senator byron dorgan will join me. clean. here s another. try charmin ultra strong. it cleans so well and you can use up to four times less than the leading bargain brand. thanks mom! make me proud honey! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra strong has a duraclean texture that s soft an
and child psychiatrist jennifer harstein. tom, you first. i want your reaction to this story. you have been active. you have done wonderful things fighting hunger in this country. what is your response, sir, when you hear about schoolkids lunc because they may come from a background that they can t afford it on that particular day? sure. my mother ran a school lunch program in elizabeth, new jersey, where i grew up. this isn t new. she s told me stories about kids who got to the cash register, they didn t have the money on their cards, but the policy there was to make sure the kids were fed. and my mother made sure that that happened. i think partly because she was a mother first, and so she understood the importance of making sure that kids had food and they had proper nutrition. and i think we can focus on school lunch, but we also need to focus on breakfast.
that kids are properly nourished when they go to school. you know, there s a whole humiliation factor as when when kids have to show up before school. those are the poor kids. they re labeled poor. it s very difficult to get there. transit isn t running. we find that moving breakfast to after the bell in first period really works. so we ve got to actually arm ourselves with some better data and really show these programs work. and they do. so if we want kids to perform better in school, proper nutrition is as important as a desk or as a book. it needs to be treated the same way. throwing the food out the window because the kids can t pay for it right at the line i think is terribly wrong-headed. jennifer, what effects does this kind of humiliation have on kids in the immediate and then many the long term? well, i mean, it s huge. you know, we have to think about the fact that shaming a child is going to make going to school very hard. they re not only being shamed in front of their