As the Michigan Legislature races against the clock to avert a shutdown, one of the most consequential battles in the state’s budget negotiations centers on whether children from low-income families will continue to receive free breakfast and lunch at school.

For many students, those meals are not an added benefit but the only guarantee of food in their day. The possibility of losing them reveals the human cost of political dysfunction, especially for children already living with economic instability.

Senator Sarah Anthony, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, has made it clear that she is refusing to let this program slip through the cracks.

“I am fighting every single day, even though we are hours away from a government shutdown to make sure that kids can still rely on brea

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