The Trump administration has acknowledged that its proposed changes to the food stamp program could leave nearly 500,000 children without access to free school lunches.Children don't learn very well when they're hungry. What will happen is that states and school boards will try to step up to feed the children, at least in places that haven't been wholly captured by the Forces of Cruelty.
The US Department of Agriculture released an analysis late Tuesday afternoon that showed the agency's proposed rule would mean nearly 1 million children would no longer be directly certified for free school meals based on their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps.
About half of those children would continue to be eligible to receive free meals because they come from families with annual household incomes of no more than 130% of the federal poverty level, or $33,475 for a four-person family in 2019.
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Just like taking milk from babies.
How many meals should the schools give out?
Breakfast, lunch, after school snacks. To pretty much anyone short enough to claim they are not an adult.
Are gonna feed kids on weekends too?
The kids families already get Free Food via SNAP.
At what point do we stop giving shit away? Even if it is "For The Children"?
“Anyone short enough to claim being an adult.” Yeah, because short adults fraudulently register for school so they can eat on the cheap.
Maybe we should bring back child labor so the little takers can earn their keep.
B, do you have any proof that there is widespread cheating by adults? Or is this just another variant on the "welfare Cadillac" trope?
B.,
Every fucking one.
Yes, they should offer a program, kids shouldn’t be starving in the U.S.
Just start adding “my precious” after anything a Republican says, and it makes sense
Perhaps all these complainers should trying living on SNAP sometime, Supplemental is part of the name...average benefit is $126 a month, or $1.40 a meal.
Ever watch those SNAP recipients in a grocery line?
2 sets of purchases. One with SNAP benefits, another with cash, for those that the SNAP stuff won't pay for.
Somehow they always have money for that.
Plus beer and smokes.
With cash.
But they "Need" those benefits.
Open your eyes.
Majority of SNAP users are holding down jobs, albeit low-wage ones. You wouldn’t be happy unless they’re on the edge of starvation, let alone afford some cheap pleasures, is what I’m getting from you here.
DA: you need to read better (perhaps without preconceived notions). I have all sorts of compassion for those folks. But they also (most of them (not all)) are gaming the system as much as they can.
IF they have money for luxury goods, like liquor, tobacco, etc, then they aren't dependent on the largesse of society. Feeding their kids simply frees up that money for them to use elsewhere. I actually applaud the Free Lunch program. Now, however it has morphed until it is breakfast and after school meals as well. At what point is enough, enough?
When you "Need" SNAP for your food, but have cash for a purchase of fairly expensive booze and other items on the same trip to the store, then I have to ask if you really "Need" the SNAP benefits....And that is many of the folks I see at the grocery store
Enough.
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