Late to this thread, but in case these weren't addressed -
This was my point.
As a result, these programs are directly related to education.
You got it backwards. In NYC, school lunch is 100% about feeding hungry children.
In beginning of COVID, after the risk was known and was pretty scary based on the limited data, Deblasio vehemently refused to close schools because he was worried poor students wouldn't have food. His words, not mine.
They fact check.
From my personal experience - I've been interviewed for roughly a dozen national publications (including CNBC, LA Times, CBS, BI, CR - never NYT) for dozens of articles and only once (the Verge) has anyone ever called to fact-check.