Posted on 09/05/2015 11:31:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday that his agency is looking for “creative ways” to give public school students access to more meals, including a way to provide them breakfast, lunch and dinner year round.
“We have focused on efforts to try to figure out ways in which we can expand in those time periods when youngsters may not have access to school meals,” Vilsack said in remarks at the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. That includes giving students access to meals “across the school day, across the school year and across the calendar year,” he said. […]
Vilsack spoke ahead of the Sept. 30 expiration date for federally funding the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010, which pays for USDA’s school meal and child nutrition programs—including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. …
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bfl
Yeap LOL
Just kidding. Most of us have heard of the “Last Supper”. But I thought that really was the final one.
And their pensions. Chicago schools are broke because of the high wages and pensions.
The retirement benefits here in NJ are the silent killer that those employees don’t even want discussed (until it is time to trim them). If these were part of the compensation discussion, and Jerseyans knew how much the true present value of these teachers’ pay was, there would be a riot (followed by more white people leaving NJ even faster than they are now).
That was a big issue in CA as well; how can our states attract businesses, taxpayers, or wealthy people when they know they are just buying shares in a MASSIVE IOU?
Yes - MOAR cowbell!
Just give me a steak sandwich and a crackling cold bottle of beer poolside and I’ll call it good.
I actually worked for a PEU in CA and the things I learned about union politics were mind boggling. Taxpayers are the enemy to them. And they’ve got the best retirement gig because the, unlike private business that can go bankrupt, the gov’t will never lose their revenue source, the taxpayers, and can force higher taxes to pay pensions.
93 percent of school districts report fewer kids buying school lunches (4 percent the same, and 3 percent increase) since Michelle’s mandates have taken over.
What they are discovering here in NJ is that they CAN lose their revenue source (taxpayers); we’ve been bleeding them for years, and tax caps put in place by Governor Christie prevent them from having their revenge at our expense. Foreigners and welfare populations will remain, but they aren’t a viable revenue source; the same non-contributing parasites that are the source of teachers’ jobs are not a source of tax revenue; we’ve been shedding teachers for years as well.
When the news crews are filming the cafeterias, as the reporter touts the program in voice-over for the evening news, we’ll never see on video, what the children are throwing away in the trash barrels.
Whole, untouched fruit [apples, bananas, oranges]; unopened containers of milk [no chocolate milk now. Heh] Whole untouched muffins, breads.
Let’s *really* show to the public what happens to the *free* food.
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