Pet peeve. A child is not elegible to apply for food stamps, only an adult. So a household gets food stamps. Citing the number of kids is a statist’s attempt to garner sympathy.
Free and reduced lunches for school age children (breakfast and lunch)is available to these same children. They're fed twice a day (in some cases three times a day in some school systems). They are even fed during the summers while school is out of session.
I've observed students getting a free lunch and then selling it for less to a non-free/reduced lunch student, and pocketing the money for snacks after school.
Why do we keep the food stamp allocation at the same level for families with school age children, as we do for those without children in school? It seems we should adjust the food stamp allocation to reflect that the child is getting two and sometimes three meals five days a week, while in school.
Sounds like double dipping to me.