Posted on 01/14/2011 10:39:49 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The government is officially announcing on Friday an expanded program that should provide 140,000 to 150,000 children from low income families with supper meals, a senior Agriculture Department official said.
A federal program aiding such children, many with parents away from home until late in the evening, has been in operation in 13 states and the District of Columbia, but USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon told Reuters in an interview that "this afternoon the official announcement goes out that the program will be available in all 50 states."
The expansion, authorized in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 signed into law in December, "is likely to enroll about between 140,000 and 150,000 children nationally," said Concannon, who has responsibility for federal food and nutrition programs.
He said organizations such as schools, boys and girls clubs and community groups had been waiting for the announcement so they could take advantage of the program. It will enable them to be paid by the federal government for providing the suppers if they meet the standards for eligibility and the meals meet health and nutrition requirements.
The program will be "available in areas where the local schools have at least half of the children attending the school receiving free or reduced-price lunches as part of the national school lunch program," Concannon said.
"The principle goal in this case is to make sure that kids are getting adequately fed and getting nutritious food," he said.
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Between school breakfasts, school lunches, and school dinners, they've now passed the 2/3 mark.
If their parents can’t feed them, why not re-open all those orphanages and just put the starving childrens there?
Why not?
We give certain people free housing (Section 8), free medical care (Medicaid and Obamacare), free sex (social standards), free breakfast and lunch at school, free food (food stamps) why not free dinner?
Why not free everything... paid for by us.
Why not?
We give certain people free housing (Section 8), free medical care (Medicaid and Obamacare), free sex (social standards), free breakfast and lunch at school, free food (food stamps) why not free dinner?
Why not free everything... paid for by us.
Those darn noodles have tripled in price in the last few years!
I hadn’t heard the word “supper” since I was a little kid.
It’s necessary in the rural areas of the south so it’s not confused with dinner.
I guess there’s beauty in quaintness. Those uses of the words are totally foreign to me.
My girlfriend and her family are country folks. We were getting read to go out for the evening meal once, I mentioned to her mom “ready for dinner” and she looked at me like I was crazy.
Don’t we already have
WIC,
food stamps,
free breakfast and lunch at school for low-income kids?
I bet a union (probably SEIU) benefits from this somehow (more employees = more union members = more dues $).
I hope your remark about hating healthy children and wanting them to starve is sarcasm.
I would have no problem feeding kids at school as long as the food stamp portion is reduced accordinly.
I didn’t see that mentioned in the article but I hope it gets bought up..
There is also a pilot program being tested where schools will get extra fed money for encoraging kids to eat breakfast at school by allowing them to eat IN CLASS
whoeer on here posted we should just take the kids away and raise on government homes hit it on the head
Oh, this is just so cool.
The indoctrinators will have the kids from early in the morning for breakfast, through school, through afterschool and now through supper. Probably right at 12 hours total. Subtract 8-10 hours for sleeping and you can see how much time the parent(s) will get with their kid.
We are so screwed. Exceedingly glad I’m an old guy. Feel very, very sorry for those coming up. Of course, they have no idea what they’ll be missing ‘cause that’s no longer taught, so what the hell.
Let’s all say it together, shall we. “Nanny State.”
LOL. Guess we’ll have to switch to dog food... *sigh*
And additional hours for janitors who now have to clean more and additional wear and tear on the equipment, requiring more maintenance.
Did I really need the /sarc tag?
Because the school lunch (breakfast, and now dinner) program and foodstamps are just as much a subsidy program to big agri-business corporations like Con-Agra as they are a socialist vote buying scheme.
I wonder how many white kids will benefit from this. My guess is close to none.
I suspect the fat, lazy, ‘at risk’ inner city kids’s schools and the various race hustlers and shakedown artists in the vicinity will get the $, as in the masters of food service workers branch of the SEIU.
You read my mind. I thought, why not get them beds and clothes.
I guess Obama forgot a lot of folks no longer have their jobs, thanks to him; They have plenty of time to be with their kids.
Debit cards are now the weapon of choice in the redistribution of funds, nowadays. Food stamps, welfare, and unemployment benefits (which are NOT redistribution/welfare) etc. are all now loaded directly on debit cards, first off to save the gov’t money. But also to erase the “stigma” of handing over food stamps at the cash register.
I don’t mind helping those temporarily down on their luck; I am unemployed myself (and NOT on any federal programs). But I am starting to believe that once you have been on food stamps, for example, by Year Four or so, you should be handed actual food stamps to deal with. At that point, a little bit of “stigma” might not be a bad idea.
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