Fewer Kids Could Receive Free School Meals Under House Bill

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans are considering legislation that could lower the number of students receiving free and reduced-price meals at school.

Legislation debated by the House Education and Workforce Committee on Wednesday aims to save money by scaling back the number of schools in which all students receive free or reduced meals.

A proposed Republican amendment to the bill would go even further, allowing a trial period of so-called block grants for school meals in three states. That would mean those states wouldn't receive unlimited federal dollars for students who qualify for the free and reduced-price lunches.

Hunger and nutrition advocates from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the American Heart Association have criticized the legislation.

Read more: http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Fewer-kids-could-receive-free-school-meals-under-House-bill-379992721.html

[Shandris]

1. So first we destroyed the meals, made them tiny and nauseating, and now we're just going...

...to pull them outright?

Seems legit and par for the course. Mmm yes, more of the status quo please. If I need the sarcasm tag, you need professional help.

[Botany]

2. How fucking "Christian" of them

And how short sighted too .... hungry kids can't learn very well .... no learning and the
cycle of poverty and jail keeps going on and on.

[YvonneCa]

6. Exactly. What happened to 'Love Thy Neighbor?..

...? 😢

[Botany]

7. My late Aunt and Uncle's legacy* .... a food pantry in S.W. OH

He was an episcopalian rector and both of them devoted their lives to helping
others.


* http://samaritanoutreachservices.com

[jwirr]

3. In the beginning it was means tested and only the poor got

free meals but for some schools that means everyone.

I would like to see this defeated and will be watching to see if President Obama vetoes it.

[YvonneCa]

5. I worked in a school where 95% of students...

... qualified. Every year families/schools had to waste time and energy on filling out forms and providing proof to qualify. And every year, most students DID qualify. The change of providing free/reduced lunch to all students made sense, saved time and money, and insured that no children went hungry.
The GOP wants to take us backwards.

[jwirr]

8. Absolutely. IMO it shows the depth of greed that the GOP has

dropped to when they are afraid some child will get a free lunch.

Hot lunch was one of the best programs we have ever had.

If we do not care about the children - who do we care about?

[caa]

4. fewer kids could receive free school m

the GOP wants every kid to be born but do not care if they live or die we have 35000 homeless kids in Washington State How many do we have in the whole country the Greed Over People party love the 1% and Corporate welfare there is some thing wrong when as a middle income retiree that I, paid more in Federal income tax then General Electric and United Airlines did last year. Could it be we have the worst Congress that money can buy? hell yes

[atreides1]

17. GOP doesn't care!!!

The truth is that the GOP doesn't care if children are born, but they know that the stupid "Christian" fanatics care!


So, they play the game by pretending to be pro-life, and the "Christians" believe every word of it!


Ever wonder why the "Christians" never seem to question when their pro-fetus heroes, are hell bent on cutting programs that help children?

[Ford_Prefect]

9. These are the same folks who OK the next overpriced and useless hyper-weapons system.

Billions spent for weapons that in some cases the Pentagon doesn't want and which often do not perform, and they have the balls to steal school kids' lunch money to pay for it.

It's money laundering straight up. Tax money is diverted from meaningfully helping tax payers and their communities. Instead it goes to bloated weapons contractors who in turn send part of it to fund the campaigns of those self same legislators.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Do Congressmen/women get free meals?

I'm sure there must be a cafeteria or restaurant in the Capitol.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. There are several cafeterias and restaurants at the Capitol

And the Senators and Congressmen do have to pay. (The Senators have their own dining room, separate from the rabble in the House.) They're not free -- it's just that they have to pay about a third of what it'd cost to eat in a comparable restaurant in the city.

article

[left-of-center2012]

18. So they have 'subsidized meals'?

While cutting back kids' lunches.

[glitterbag]

19. Cafeteria

both the House and Senate have cafeterias. I'm fairly sure it isn't free but I'm not sure if they have accounts or pay cash.

[WhiteTara]

11. And there are those who want to hand the WH

to Drumpf to work hand in glove to finish off the American people just to spite the Democratic party.

[hopemountain]

13. every kid in our elementary and middle school

receives a free lunch. the unemployment rate and low paying wages & a growling belly are not the children's fault.

how can legislators be so mean hearted and greedy? disgusting.

we must turn the house and the senate to democratic majorities.

every one of us can write a letter or call the whitehouse and plead with michelle to tell the president to veto this bill if it passes.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Cheap, cheap, cheap!

[valerief]

16. Cuz that's how their Jesus wants it. nt