re: #218 Belafon

The program they want to scale back was an interesting one. If a school had more than 40% of its students receiving free lunches, every kid at the school got free lunches. Republicans want to change the requirement to 60%. They’re not eliminating free lunches for those that need it. They’re just trying to cut back on the number of students getting free lunches that could actually afford it.

As the article states, having so many students on free lunches, and having to verify them, is a cost in paperwork and time that was probably recovered by just making everyone’s lunch free. This is one of those times where Republicans aren’t actually going to save anything, because I bet this doesn’t cost much anyway.

I grew up on free and reduced lunches.

They would rather waste money on administrative costs than waste it on feeding kids?