Did anyone in the comments even read the article or did they just skim the title and decide to chide America since that's so du jour right now?
The gist of the article is that an enormous crisis created strains on connecting people and free meals, but various entities stepped up to the plate and came up with flexible solutions (school districts delivering meals on school buses or making food available for pickup, cities paying restaurants to feed seniors, expansion of federal funding, food banks and churches expanding their food operations, etc.).
The title could've been "US system of free and subsidized meals bends but does not break", but that just doesn't get clicks, does it? Negative title creates negative emotions, which leads to negative thought patterns (America sucks!!), and then the cycle continues.
The gist of the article is that an enormous crisis created strains on connecting people and free meals, but various entities stepped up to the plate and came up with flexible solutions (school districts delivering meals on school buses or making food available for pickup, cities paying restaurants to feed seniors, expansion of federal funding, food banks and churches expanding their food operations, etc.).
The title could've been "US system of free and subsidized meals bends but does not break", but that just doesn't get clicks, does it? Negative title creates negative emotions, which leads to negative thought patterns (America sucks!!), and then the cycle continues.