Thursday, December 01, 2011
Government at Work - "Yes, There is a Free Lunch"
Considering that this article only discusses Wisconsin, I can just imagine what's the numbers are for the entire U.S. ...
Mike Nichols writes about Wisconsin's school lunches at WPRI.org:
"The practice is so common and ingrained that scores of middle-class families — when granted anonymity — have admitted during interviews that their children are being fed through government nutrition programs designed to help their less fortunate neighbors.
What’s more, they are just a small fraction of what are likely tens of thousands of relatively well-off state families siphoning money and food from school breakfast, lunch or snack programs, a Wisconsin Interest investigation has found.
Census data indicates that there are simply many more students in Wisconsin now certified to receive a free or greatly reduced-price lunch — 41% — than can possibly be below income thresholds for the program. And with government subsidies of $2 or $3 per meal — and tens of millions of essentially free meals served every year — the cost is enormous."
