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He was forced to mop the floors because his parents hadn t paid off his lunch money debt. at another a teacher says kids go around the cafeteria collecting food scraps from trays. at another, a homeless student in tears afraid show wouldn t be able to graduate because her lunch money debt piled up as her family lost their home. these are just a few examples of lunch shaming. a child through no fault of his or her own treated differently or singled out because they are poor. it is happening in several states, and it s happening right here in america. 76% of school districts have kids with lunch debt, and nearly half of the nation s schoolchildren get free lunch. that is had a massive jump from 17 years ago, and it s a problem my next guest is trying to fix. she is jennifer ramos, executive director of a nonprofit called new mexico apple seed. her team just wrote a law that just passed in new mexico to end this practice, and a similar bill was introduced in congress just yesterday. jenni ....

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