Clamoring for calories: Universal school lunches are a worthy spend for Albany

Feeding hungry kids shouldn’t really be an area where we’re zealously looking for return on investment beyond making sure the program is efficiently run and reaching everyone, but there definitely is an ROI here. It’s almost too obvious to point out that giving children an opportunity to thrive in school is as direct a shot as we have to future economic prosperity and a productive and civically engaged population, and a precursor to an effective education is kids that are properly fed.