If you are, for instance, a college student living off
campus on a limited income, you would be facing a financial problem living in the Portsmouth, VA, area without the means to deal with the aftershock of such a crisis.
As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly
limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low -
income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates
on school
campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.