USDA announces free lunches for all students through 2021-22 school year

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A "free lunch," you say? 🤔

Yep. Read It and Weep libertard.

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Another Democrat handout to the upper middle class.

You think upper middle class kids eat cafeteria slop instead of bringing their own lunch?

The free school lunch program already has categorical eligibility for SNAP participants and and those below 185% of the poverty level

Do families above 185% of the FPL need free school meals?

I think 135 is for free and 185% for reduced. Although tbf if a family can't afford the 40 cents reduced price lunch I would be incredibly worried about child neglect.
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Why would that worry you? Republicans are masters of mass cbild neglect.

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A "free lunch," you say? 🤔

Yep. Read It and Weep libertard.

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LOL! Seriously though, even I have some reservations about this policy. I adamantly support that Lowe and lower-income families have absolute unqualified access to free or severely reduced school lunches. I further fully believe that if there's any doubt as to whether or not a family should qualify, err on the side of caution and qualify them. Even with this in my mind, though, the social spending dollars are fungible and limited. Some of these free lunches will of course go to upper-income kids whose families have no need for such subsidies whatsoever, where such funds could be better spent on any number of other social spending or in the structure needs.

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Woild be good if they didnt serve trash for lunches. How about veggies fruits and whole grains instead of junk like sugar milk and chicken nuggets?

The same reason hovering over this debate. $$$

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Woild be good if they didnt serve trash for lunches. How about veggies fruits and whole grains instead of junk like sugar milk and chicken nuggets?

The same reason hovering over this debate. $$$

What no?

Healthy food doesn't cost more to buy than  Junk Food. Maybe preparation can take a bit longer but mess preparation in a school cafeteria cancels that out. The answer is that kids just won't eat it lol.

That's not completely untrue that it's less desirable, but preparation cost is huge when it comes to mass meals like school lunches.