(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) DJ Bracken, founder of the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation, and his daughter, Liara Bracken holding checks to local elementary schools, in Riverton on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025.
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…