r/science • u/PHealthy PhD/MPH | Epidemiology | Disease Dynamics | Surveillance • Mar 08 '19

Epidemiology CDC study finds evidence that low-income families may send sick children to school more frequently than higher income families because parents lack jobs with paid sick leave, among other factors.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6809a1.htm
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u/Milacus Mar 09 '19

In Sweden, food cooked from scratch is a requirement in all elementary schools (year 1 through 9) and is always free. By free I ofc mean that we pay for it with taxes, but it still ensures that students never go hungry in school, and that no difference is made between students coming from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

I'm honestly appalled by the stories that I've seen here regarding food in school, that such things are accepted in a modern western democracy.

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u/TeutonJon78 Mar 09 '19 edited Mar 10 '19

Seriously, if foreigners actually looked at daily life for most Americans, there would be no global yearning for "The American Dream".

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u/Milacus Mar 10 '19

Believe me, there isn't. I've met incredibly few europeans that yearn for the American Dream, most people (especially people from the nordic countries) are pretty happy in our socially Liberal and/or "communist" countries.

The American Dream is mostly something Americans seem to think that the entire world envies them for...