School-aged children need to receive free meals while in public schools. The suggested policy changes will provide the opportunity for opinions to be gathered from community members nationwide to measure the opinions of the affected community. Contacting the USDA with the information, research, and opinions gathered on the policy issue at hand. Advocating children not to go home hungry from school is a nationwide concern that needs to be addressed. Children across the nation are going home hungry. This is not new for our nation but has increasingly gotten worse with the COVID-19 pandemic. K-12 students are affected by not implementing a nationwide free school lunch program as well as their families who cannot afford or fear stigmatization of reduced priced meals. Students above the qualifying income level are also affected by a lack of free lunch programs as they may not be able to afford lunch regardless of their over-qualifying income. The National School Lunch Program works with students under the 185% the FPL, however, many students are unaware on how to receive those benefits and students that are above the FPL do not qualify and cannot afford those benefits. The lack of a nationwide free lunch program marginalizes students who cannot afford meals and who are stigmatized by peers for receiving reduced prices; it affects students' ability to focus while in the classroom and affects their physical and mental well-being. In accomplishing this goal, it assists in addressing greater social policy issues including mental health, poverty, child hunger, and stigmatization based on socioeconomic status. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, ““Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control” (United Nations, 2020). For students whose families can’t afford to pay the fee for school lunches despite the policy guidelines that insinuate they should be able to, this compromises the student’s right to having a standard of living adequate for their health and well-being noted in Article 25 in circumstances a child is subject to potentially missing a meal due to not being able to afford it. Thus, by our action, this right will be promoted, protected, and claimed.