See Putative President Obama's Daughters School Lunch Menu Compared To Michelle Obama's Lunch Menu For Public Students (welfare, kids)
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Families on food stamps are automatically qualified for the FARM program at school. While not technically the same program they're connected. It's not considered double dipping but in addition to.
Do families with children in school get the same benefits as families with children not yet in school? If so, and kids are getting fed breakfast, lunch, and frequently also dinner at school, it's double-dipping: getting the same welfare benefit twice.
Could explain why some food stamp recipients can afford to buy steak and lobster.
Do families with children in school get the same benefits as families with children not yet in school? If so, and kids are getting fed breakfast, lunch, and frequently also dinner at school, it's double-dipping: getting the same welfare benefit twice.
Could explain why some food stamp recipients can afford to buy steak and lobster.
It's not considered double dipping, school lunch is school lunch, EBT meals at home are EBT meals at home.
As to your second question, I guess that the food goes in the cart and the bill is paid. It would be like me having $30K in the bank and buying a new car with it. I had the money so I could "afford" it.
I think rather than "afford" you're asking why they're permitted to spend a big chunk of the benefit on a meal or two. I guess because the rules allow it.
If you think parents are going to pack a kid a lunch, no matter the income level, that just really doesn't happen much anymore.
It's not considered double dipping, school lunch is school lunch, EBT meals at home are EBT meals at home.
Yes, but eligible kids are getting fed free breakfast, lunch, and frequently also dinner at schoolwhile their parent/s is/are getting SNAP benefits to feed them those same meals at home. It IS double-dipping.
Yes, but eligible kids are getting fed free breakfast, lunch, and frequently also dinner at schoolwhile their parent/s is/are getting SNAP benefits to feed them those same meals at home. It IS double-dipping.
Take it up with Congress and the Ag Department. Schools can only follow the rules they're given.
No child, regardless of his or her parents' indiscretion, handicap, laziness, foolhardiness, etc., etc., should EVER go hungry. He or she should be given the opportunity to eat a healthy, satisfying meal 3 times a day, preferably provided or purchased by his or her parents. But if his or her parents cannot or will not, then it becomes society's responsibility to provide. Anything else is just BULLSH*T.
That's it in a nutshell.
Having a hungry kid on your hands is not considered a tough ethical question, because every human being know what's the right thing to do: You feed the kid. The kid's parents may be lazy or disabled or just generally messed-up ne'er-do-wells, and it doesn't matter. Hungry kids should be fed, and that's the end of it.
It's a classical demonstration of which political bend are afraid of which type of mistake: Some are more afraid that of kids going hungry, and some are more afraid of someone, somewhere, getting away with something.
Having a hungry kid on your hands is not considered a tough ethical question, because every human being know what's the right thing to do: You feed the kid. The kid's parents may be lazy or disabled or just generally messed-up ne'er-do-wells, and it doesn't matter. Hungry kids should be fed, and that's the end of it.
I agree. But if parents are getting SNAP benefits and STILL not feeding their kids, those SNAP benefits need to be rescinded. Continue feeding the kids at school, but rescind the extra SNAP benefits the parents are receiving.
I agree. But if parents are getting SNAP benefits and STILL not feeding their kids, those SNAP benefits need to be rescinded. Continue feeding the kids at school, but rescind the extra SNAP benefits the parents are receiving.
Wow, you are really into micro-micro-micro economics, huh?
Make sure those families have $50 a month deducted from their food stamps because their kids are getting food at school, but turn a blind eye to wall street/bankers/and whatever it is Mitt Romney does to suck up cash and pay little to no taxes.
DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!
That's minimum nutrition standards - nothing to do with the crappy lunches shown in those photos. School lunches have always looked sad.
The school lunches at my school used to be fairly decent but they would never meet the criteria they have now. They couldn't serve them if they wanted too.
Wow, you are really into micro-micro-micro economics, huh?
Make sure those families have $50 a month deducted from their food stamps because their kids are getting food at school, but turn a blind eye to wall street/bankers/and whatever it is Mitt Romney does to suck up cash and pay little to no taxes.
1) Prove that wall street/bankers/Mitt Romney pay little to no taxes given the following IRS tax data:
The average effective federal income tax rate paid, by income group:
Tuition at Sidwell is in the $35,000 a year range and includes lunch.
I think the number of kids in public school who qualify for no or reduced cost lunch is about 25 million.
Many schools now also provide breakfast and early dinner because for whatever reason, many parents are not providing for their own kids.
This is a pet peeve of mine. How about parents feed their own kids? If you don't like the school lunch, then pack your kid's lunch. When I went to school, there was no cafeteria. I walked home for lunch, which typically consisted of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or Spaghetti Os and milk. That is what kids ate for lunch. I don't think chicken nuggets were invented yet, but that would have been considered gourmet. No way would my mother be making a hot gourmet meal at lunchtime.
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