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Originally Posted by JohnR
Imagine by taking a family off of assistance because a parent is working again, restarting an income, sales, and family purchasing begins. Federal and local assitance is reduced / eliminated in that case. It is probably a net game.
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no, with this admin. the idea is to add as many families as possible to "assistance"...helps eliminate the "stigma" of assistance you know...
The new welfare trap is named the Community Eligibility Option, part of President Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Three states will be involved in a pilot program starting now, and more states will be phased in over time. By 2014-15, the option will be available in all states, if this law is kept on the books.
Any student at a school with 40% of the student body on welfare is going to get his free lunch, whether he needs it or not. That 40% can be made up of students already eligible for programs like Food Stamps or welfare (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Interestingly, the category of eligibility also includes "migrant youth." So illegals can get in on the boondoggle as well. If 5% of students are "migrant youth, and an additional 35% of students are on some form of welfare, the remaining 60% are automatically entitled if their school opts in.
Entire school districts, like Detroit's, will receive free food for every single student in all grades, K-12. The policy is coming into effect right as we learn that Michigan, for instance, recently kicked thirty thousand college students off food stamps for abusing the system.
"All Detroit Public Schools students will receive
free breakfast, lunch and snacks in an effort to remove the stigma of being from a low-income family."
Free meals for all Detroit schoolchildren in fall | Detroit Free Press | freep.com