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The War Over America's Lunch

The War Over America's Lunch: "

A focus group at Lionel Wilson College Prep Academy Middle and High School in Oakland, CA taste tests southwest chicken salad with black beans, corn and organic ranch dressing.

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'Beans??' The girl said.

She was sitting near the end of a long table in the cafeteria at Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy, a charter school in Oakland, Calif. There were about a dozen middle schoolers in all, taste testing new school-lunch ideas. The girl was a tough customer, by far the toughest at the table. (She had just refused to sample a pasta with Alfredo sauce: 'I don't like to try things I haven't seen before,' she said flatly.) The offending item? A salad with fresh greens, roasted pumpkin seeds, corn, shredded cheese and black beans, tossed in organic ranch dressing.

Amy Klein, the grownup hovering nearby, knew the beans were a gamble. As the executive chef at Revolution Foods, a fast-growing for-profit company that caters healthy breakfasts and lunches to mostly lower-income schools, Klein has gone from feeding a few hundred kids in 2006 to about 30,000 today. In that time, she's learned some things. Like, for the kids she serves, food is either 'good' or 'weird.' Good gets eaten; weird gets tossed or prompts kids to skip the lunch line altogether. And beans on salad were probably going to be weird.

'How would you make it better?' Klein asked, warm and energetic. 'You can say, 'Don't put beans on my salad!'' (See pictures of what the world eats.)

'I can touch my eyeball,' the girl said. She touched her eyeball. The kids around her started touching their eyeballs too.

A Michelin-star dining room, this is not. But it might require just as much imagination. Federal reimbursement for school lunches doesn't go very far. Kids eat free if their parents earn less than 130% of the poverty line — about $28,000 for a family of four — and schools are reimbursed $2.68 per meal. Families who earn up to 185% of the poverty line, about $40,000 a year, qualify for a reduced-price lunch; kids pay a little bit, and schools get $2.28 from the government. And many schools subsidize full-price meals by charging less than it takes to produce them. After accounting for labor, transportation and other costs, cafeteria directors typically have about $1 left over for the actual food. Frozen pizza, fries and chocolate milk have become school-lunch staples because it's tough to do better.

But school lunch is facing new scrutiny. There's even a prime-time network reality show (Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution) that takes place in school cafeterias and has stars bickering about chicken nuggets and federally mandated grain servings. This is partly due to the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, a once-every-five-years event when Congress decides how much federal money schools will receive under the National School Lunch Program. But it's more than that. This year's vote comes at a time of unprecedented attention to childhood obesity. (See TIME's special report on overcoming obesity.)

The Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that a typical high school lunch contains more than twice the recommended limit for sodium intake, too many calories from sugar and saturated fat and too few fruits and vegetables. Congress seems likely to raise federal reimbursements by a few cents — which is more than it sounds but still less than the White House requested — and tie the increase to more thorough health standards.

But this will mean really hard work in school kitchens across the country. They'll be asked to serve wholesome meals at fast-food prices. And not just that: kids have to like them.

Assembling the Day's Meals
A couple of days earlier, Klein was flying around her kitchen. It's the size of a warehouse, near the Oakland airport. (She's got others like it now in Los Angeles, Denver and Washington, and the company is close to expanding into New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Louisiana.) Two dozen or so Revolution Foods employees were assembling the day's meals, thousands of them, on long stainless-steel tables.

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The Case For Diane Wood

The Case For Diane Wood: "

I was commissioned by my editors at the Prospect to write an article about Diane Wood. While I was polishing it, someone in our comments linked to an excellent Green Greenwald post that used similar sources to reach similar conclusions. Which is a good thing in terms of alerting progressives to the fact that she’s by far the best candidate on most shortlists! But, alas, it also meant that the market for my article had pretty much evaporated. But, for the record, my own argument in favor of nominating Wood is below the fold:

Because President Obama’s forthcoming Supreme Court nomination will not affect the Court’s median vote in most cases, it is easy to think it will not be terribly consequential. Replacing Justice Stevens, however, has greater potential consequences than it might appear at first glance. First of all, there is a very real risk [http://ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com/2010/04/experts-predict-court.php] that Stevens’s replacement will shift the Court to the right. And second, the retirement of the leader of the Court’s liberal wing leaves a real void on the Court, one that will only be compounded with the likely retirement of Justice Ginsburg next year.

In a recent Prospect article, I argued that Obama should keep both of these issues in mind when appointing a replacement for Justice Stevens. Among the candidates who appear most often on informed shortlists, it is clear to me that Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Wood is the strongest candidate. Judge Wood would bring both sterling credentials and the judicial philosophy that represents the best of liberal constitutional thought to the bench. To summarize her strengths as a nominee:

• A Sound Theory Of Judicial Interpretation. To the extent that judicial review is a normatively attractive institution, it increases the chances that individuals and groups that are marginalized by other political processes will have their rights protected. In addition, the modern regulatory state often requires judges to interpret regulatory statutes intended to protect the rights of citizens against powerful private interests. The Republican appointments who now dominate the federal courts tend to stand the best aspects of judicial review on their head, interpreting ambiguous constitutional and statutory provisions in favor of interests that are already greatly overrepresented in ordinary political processes.

Taken as a whole, Judge Wood’s record strongly suggests that her constitutional and statutory interpretation will belong to a tradition truer to the best values of the Constitution and the Great Society than the Court’s Republican majority. Two examples among many might serve as an illustration. Her dissent from a 7th Circuit opinion upholding a Wisconsin “informed consent” abortion regulation in spite of evidence demonstrating that the regulation posed a substantial burden on already disadvantaged women demonstrates not only a judge who (unlike a current majority of the Court) takes the reproductive rights of women seriously, but believes that it is not only burdens reproductive freedom that affect affluent urban women that demand real constitutional scrutiny. Wood also dissented from the denial of rehearing of a 7th Circuit opinion that upheld a Indiana Voter ID requirement that would disenfranchise some of the state’s most disadvantaged voters, despite the fact that the state could not cite a single actual example of vote fraud that the burden would prevent and the fact that the state left the much more fraud-prone absentee ballot system (which is generally used by more affluent voters) intact. And while the Supreme Court regrettably upheld the statute, the Indiana Court of Appeals unanimously struck it down a year later. Among many others, these cases reflect a judge who will interpret the law to enhance democratic representation and accountability rather than thwarting them.

• Attenuating Ivy League Hegemony While it is not surprising or inappropriate that a significant number of Supreme Court justices have come from Harvard and Yale law schools, the utter domination of graduates from these schools on the current court reflects more of a lazy credentialism than a genuine meritocracy. Certainly, nothing about the history of the Court suggests that an Ivy League degree is necessary to become a good Supeme Court justice: just among important 20th century justices, consider Hugo Black (University of Alabama), John Marshall Harlan II (New York Law School), Earl Warren (Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley), Robert Jackson (attended Albany Law School without graduating), Lewis Powell (Washington and Lee), Thurgood Marshall (Howard), and Frank Murphy (Michigan). With Northwestern’s Stevens retiring, the remaining eight justices all attended Harvard or Yale Law. Judge Wood, who received both her undergraduate and law school degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, would provide some welcome diversity in this respect, in addition to addressing the Court’s still-substantial underrepresentation of women.

• Superior Abilities and Work Ethic. I spoke with several of Judge Wood’s former clerks, all of whom confirmed the general perception that her abilities and temperament make her overwhelmingly qualified for a position on the nation’s highest court. All of her former clerks praised the exceptional diligence and preparation of a judge whose mastery of case facts sometimes exceeded that of the litigators. This work ethic seems especially remarkable for a judge who was raising children and kept up with a variety of extracurricular pursuits, including teaching at the University of Chicago law school and playing the oboe for the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra. Her intellect is clearly first-rate, enabling her to more than hold her own within the famously brainy and right-leaning Seventh Circuit, home to the conservative giants Frank Easterbrook and Richard Posner.

• The Ability to Exert Real Influence In itself, appealing personal qualities and the ability to maintain the respect of more conservative colleagues does not justify a Supreme Court nomination; on a position of this importance, getting the law right matters more than getting a nice, well-rounded person on the Court. What makes Judge Wood’s personal qualities relevant (in addition to increasing the chances of her confirmation) is evidence from her record that she has the intellect and interpersonal skills to actually effect case outcomes. Consider the 2008 religious discrimination case Bloch v. Frischholz. In federal circuit courts, cases are first heard by a randomly selected three-judge panel, and in some cases are reheard in an “en banc” hearing by the entire court. In Bloch, the initial panel voted over Judge Wood’s dissent to deny a religious freedom claim. After the en banc hearing, however, the 7th Circuit unanimously – and therefore including the judges who had additionally disagreed! – voted to adopt the reasoning of Judge Wood’s dissent rather than the panel’s majority opinion. The case indicates a judge whose skills lead to real influence, and as Greenwald notesalso destroys the ridiculous right-wing canard that she is in some way hostile to religion.

Since 1916, the seat on the Supreme Court that is about to become vacant has been held by three of the most important liberals in the Court’s history: Louis Brandeis, William O. Douglas, and Stevens. Between her intellect and constitutional philosophy, there is every likelihood Judge Wood would be a worthy successor to this triumvirate. Hopefully President Obama will nominate his former University of Chicago law school colleague.

Related posts:

1. The Non-Radicalism of Diane Wood’s Church and State Jurisprudence


2. The Non-radicalism Of Diane Wood’s Abortion Jurisprudence


3. The Effective Case Against Kagan

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