Amy McGrath

Yeah, especially given everything else that's out there, McDonald's and all of these other that we're exposed to and that we go to.

I often think, you know, how is it that kids... Well, I can't imagine going to grade school as a kid and being hungry or going there and having a meal that is not nutritious.

I mean, we know...

And this is where I want to ask you, we know there are studies out there that say that there's huge benefits from this, from a public policy perspective.

Can you talk about what benefits kids get and what society gets when we invest in kids here?

Sure.

I remember that during COVID, going around Kentucky and seeing how the schools were dealing with COVID.

And that school meal program continued.

And people would drive up and get the bag of their lunch and move on.

And it

Did you see, is this just something that happens in Jefferson County or is this across the nation or across the state?

Does every school district do it similarly?

You made a great point about these programs using local products from local farmers.

It's all really well thought out by people like you.

And I want to get into what has happened this summer at the federal level where we saw this big, beautiful bill, whatever you want to call it, this act that was –

largely voted on by pretty much all these Republicans, and with massive cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP.

And does that affect the school lunch program at all?

And if so, how?

It does.

Yeah, you know, and the worry that I have with these cuts to things like SNAP and Medicaid, and you laid it out really well there, is that, you know, when you do that and you stop the sort of automatic enrollment, as you talked about, what that means is that