New Mexico students will no longer be singled out if they have debt in the school cafeteria. Our state became the first in the nation recently to outlaw what's known as "lunch shaming," which can include serving students a cold sandwich instead of a hot meal, requiring that they help clean up after the meal or stamping their arm with a message to parents that they owe money in the cafeteria.
We'll take a deeper look at unequal access to healthy food for children and learn about programs that are closing the gap for families that struggle in the summer when school meals aren't available.