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California school districts are worried about workers could leave for $20 jobs in fast food. The state put the minimum wage for fast-food workers up to $20 an hour on April 1. AdvertisementSchool districts in California are worried about food and cafeteria workers leaving for higher-paying jobs at fast-food restaurants after the state boosted the sector's minimum wage to $20 an hour. School districts "are all very worried about it," Carrie Bogdanovich, president of the California School Nutrition Association, told The Associated Press. Are you a worker in California considering moving to a fast-food chain for the $20 wage?
Persons: , Carrie Bogdanovich, Sal Vitalie Organizations: Service, California School Nutrition Association, Associated Press, Garden Club, Business Locations: California, South San Francisco
Pandemic offered a 'trial run' for free meals"The pandemic was a trial run and it worked," Crystal FitzSimons, FRAC's director of school and out-of-school time programs, said of the universal free school meals. Inflationary pressures have since pushed up prices in many school districts, which have contended with higher costs for food and labor, said Diane Pratt-Heavner, a spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association. Since local school districts set their own prices, they can "vary widely" across the country, the School Nutrition Association said. Loss of free meals may lead to hardshipIn 2021, the National School Lunch Program provided 2.2 billion meals, about 99% of which were at a free or reduced price, according to USDA data. Kids from "food-insecure and marginally food-secure" households are more likely to eat school meals, according to the USDA.
Persons: Crystal FitzSimons, FitzSimons, Diane Pratt, Saied Toossi Organizations: Agriculture Department, School Nutrition, School Nutrition Association, USDA, Sdi
New CNN —Kraft Heinz has succeeded in getting its ready-to-eat packaged Lunchables into school lunch programs starting this fall, in a major new initiative. The USDA referred CNNBusiness to Kraft Heinz for further details about the cost and nutritional content of its Lunchables for schools. Kraft Heinz declined to provide additional details about the cost and other nutritional content, including sodium and saturated fat content. School food nutrition guidelines getting stricterKraft-Heinz says that Lunchables will minimize school "labor needs and costs" in its promotional materials. “As school nutrition guidelines get increasingly complex, we’ve seen companies leaving the K-12 segment, said Pratt-Heavner.
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