We have about 600,000 children who qualify for free and reduced lunch and only 14 percent are accessing.
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Alma Adams discusses low participation in free lunch programs.
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The Trump administration's attempt to gut protections for tipped workers have only worsened these issues by allowing employers to steal almost 6 billion dollars of worker's hard-earned tips for themselves each year.
We appreciate your consideration of the immense positive impact SNAP has on the lives of millions of Americans as well as its beneficial impact on the national economy and our nation's long-term financial sustainability.
The current sub-minimum wage with tipped employees perpetuates low pay, enables, inexcusable levels of wage theft, and it leads to higher poverty rates.
In one of the richest countries in the world, no one working full-time should be living in poverty.





