Measure on the ballot in the 2022 Colorado General Election in Colorado.
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Get StartedA "yes" vote on Proposition FF creates a program to provide access to free meals to all public school students in Colorado and offer grants to schools related to the provision of school meals. It also increases taxes for households with over $300,000 in federal adjusted gross income by limiting state income tax deductions.
A "no" vote on Proposition FF means that the current method of funding school meals, which provides free meals to children from households with incomes below certain thresholds, will remain unchanged, and there will be no change to tax law.
"No child should go hungry because they can't afford a nutritious meal – More than 60,000 kids in Colorado can't afford school meals, but don't qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and 2 out of every 5 Colorado families struggle to put food on the table for their children. When kids go hungry, their academic performance and long-term development suffers. We can help end childhood hunger by voting YES on Proposition FF." - YES on FF website, in support of Proposition FF (Learn more)
"With Healthy School Meals for All, we can break lunch line stigma for kids of lower social economic status. This initiative will also ensure that school cafeteria workers get paid fairly." - Chauncey Johnson, an anti-hunger community leader and former participant in the school meals program, in support of Proposition FF (Learn more)
"Despite potential benefits for low- and middle-income families, Proposition FF's program encourages inefficiency. On average, due to administrative costs, employee wages, and ingredient costs, school meals are more expensive than home-packed meals. Proposition FF will drive this price disparity wider by requiring food authorities to purchase more expensive ingredients and increasing overhead costs by raising operating expenses, wages, and state government employment." - Common Sense Institute, in opposition to Proposition FF (Learn more)
"My kids are all grown, but if I had kids, how can I sit here and say my kids should have a free lunch if I'm making six figures? I don't think that's right... So I have a fundamental problem with the premise of the bill. People that could afford to pay need to pay to subsidize programs needed to help the people who need the subsidies." - State Rep. Richard Holtorf, in opposition to Proposition FF (Learn more)
Shall state taxes be increased $100,727,820 annually by a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes that, to support healthy meals for public school students, increases state taxable income only for individuals who have federal taxable income of $300,000 or more by limiting itemized or standard state income tax deductions to $12,000 for single tax return filers and $16,000 for joint tax return filers, and, in connection therewith, creating the healthy school meals for all program to provide free school meals to students in public schools; providing grants for participating schools to purchase Colorado grown, raised, or processed products, to increase wages or provide stipends for employees who prepare and serve school meals, and to create parent and student advisory committees to provide advice to ensure school meals are healthy and appealing to all students; and creating a program to assist in promoting Colorado food products and preparing school meals using basic nutritious ingredients with minimal reliance on processed products?
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