Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch
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Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.
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Indiana did free meals, then announced kids had to get approved nicknames like Florida...
What are approved nicknames? That's usually not how nicknames work.
I read an article about it recently. If a student asks to be called by a name other than the one they were registered with (for example, Benjamin asks to be called Ben or William asks to be called Sir Buttface) the school is supposed to inform the parents and get approval. A "side" effect of this is outing trans kids to their parents.
Thanks for explaining. Does sound like the only effect this law has.
The other (minor but possibly cumulative) effect is that it annoys every parent whose child doesn't go by their birth name. Enough little cuts like that and the GOP loses plenty of voters.
That’s a weird nickname.
Kids get named Montana, Washington, and Indiana. "Florida" could be an ironic nickname for any of those.
Just to clarify for other here. Indiana does not do universal free lunch like Massachusetts. You have to apply for it.
Honestly, as a Hoosier, surprised they even went for the free meals.