Posted on 06/08/2016 2:35:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1
For “progressives,” the Nanny State never does enough. They always find new social problems and “unmet needs” that, in their view, can only be addressed by further expansion of government. In that vein, we now have a proposal to take the free school lunch program in schools to next level – college.
Since the federal government feeds students in K-12 schools via the National School Lunch Program, it should similarly feed college students who are “food insecure,” argues a new policy brief published by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab.
According to authors Sara Goldrick-Rab, Katharine Broton, and Emily Brunjes Colo, the country loses productivity because students who are hungry underperform and therefore don’t graduate on time, if at all.
“Insufficient attention to the nutritional needs of undergraduates,” they write, “could contribute to the inadequate production of college-educated labor.”
It is funny to hear talk about “underproduction” regarding college graduates when large numbers of them now work in low-skill jobs and have great trouble in meeting their student loan payments. It’s obvious that we have oversold higher education, and that the apparent need for more college-educated workers is mainly due to credential inflation, as I argued in this piece.
But let’s put that problem aside and focus on the claim that large numbers of college students go hungry.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
there’s nothing that a charity can do that a government can utterly screw up, underserving the needy, overserving the free riders, and costing way more than it ought to.
there’s nothing that a charity can do that a government CAN’T utterly screw up, underserving the needy, overserving the free riders, and costing way more than it ought to.
Well hell, let’s just give em free cars, free houses, and free cell phones to go with those free lunches.
I guess these college students wants us to spoon feed them their lunch...sigh
And, of course, this will be expanded to illegals. When they sang “feed the world” in the 1980s, they really meant it. The ever-expanding Welfare State knows no bounds. Until it collapses into Civil War and riots, that is.
My daughter was required to purchase a meal plan in her freshman year, and there is no way she used all of the value of it, not even remotely.
If the students are paying $70,000 a year soon at a university in California then they can afford to buy lunch!!!
US Dept. of Agriculture -Subsidies
Bernie wants to give them free school.
Enough of the freebie BS. Make the a-holes work if they want to get fed.
Oh, come on - you didn’t really want that money you worked so hard to get for yourself and your family.
Smile when the government takes it all to give away to everyone else.
They can afford to buy my lunch.
There was one summer back in college when I was between jobs that I sold my plasma to buy rice and beans. I did just fine.
yes, follow the money.
the Corporate/Welfare State industrial complex.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The problem is that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate is failing to kill House approprations bills that designate funds for school lunches.
If the states want the feds to subsidize intrastate school lunches then they need to amend the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to do so.
After all, the feds always do a better job with things than the states. /sarc
Patriots need to support Trump with a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again, but also put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxing and spending evidenced by federal funding for school lunches.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-igoring activist justices.
I’m pony insecure. I want a pony.
Not fair!
Moehammedan students would not get lunch during Ramadan.
Will they have to chew the same tire rubber Michelle chooses for younger students?
Cloward-piven ping
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