The Tightrope With Dan Smolen

Settle the debt: school lunch debt relief non-profit provides attorney meaningful ork About this episode: "In 2017, I was just driving down the street and I heard this interview on NPR and it was about this child in New Mexico who had gone to get a school lunch. And he walked up to the cash register with his meal in his hands, and it turned out that he didn't have enough money in his account to pay for the lunch. So, the lunch lady took the meal out of his hands and threw it in the trash right in front of him, and, gave him an alternative meal like a cold cheese sandwich instead of the healthy meal—one that had already been served that they couldn't give to anybody else. And instead of letting that child eat that meal, they threw it away. And they did it in front of him. You know, of course, that the child is going to be traumatized by that." -Adelle Settle, Founder of Settle The Debt She already does meaningful work as an attorney for a federal government agency. But as mom to an elementary school-aged