That's the thing malnutrition is convenient sloganeering from the progressive left. In reality, U.S. food assistance programs are generous and very accessible to the poor and working poor.
The debate is over what is responsible for the childhood obesity epidemic. Some will argue people don't have enough assistance to buy healthy food. Others will blame people for simply making bad food choices. Then there is the political reality that the U.S. subsidizes and promotes grain and sugar production and this factors in downstream highly-processed foods.
No, so I don't agree that American children are suffering from malnutrition due to a lack of assistance. It's lazy rhetoric. Currently, the U.S. SNAP program (nutrition assistance) measures at almost a $1000 a month for a family of four. This doesn't include school meals or direct food distribution through nonprofit food pantries and the like.
Jamie Dimon the Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase (and no raging Republican for sure) basically said we need more nutritional education in schools. We seemed to have had a lot of home economics in my school many years ago. However, many of us also had grandmothers who raised and fed their children during the Depression and WW2 passing down their knowledge.
