So one Riverton dad was rightly scandalized to learn that Utah public school students — and their families — were carrying $2.8 million in debt because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of their school lunches.

But instead of just whining, D.J. Bracken decided to do something about it . And the results will soon be showing up on a Utah automobile near you.

Bracken’s Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation is jumping through the bureaucratic hoops, and raising the necessary funds, to have the state start issuing a special series of auto license plates with the message “End School Lunch Debt.”

Each license plate will raise money toward retiring the lunch debt of Utah families.

The total school lunch debt in Utah has only grown since Bracken began his efforts, topping $3.6 million this ye

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