"...In 2018, U.S. taxpayers spent $17 billion on these two federal school lunch programs combined.
Yet for decades, these programs have been plagued by misspending and improper payments...
...According to the Office of Management and Budget, the National School Lunch Program lost nearly $800 million owing to improper payments in fiscal year 2018, while the School Breakfast Program lost $300 million....the Department of Agriculture has “changed what it considers to be an improper payment.”
As a result, it is impossible to compare the most recent error rates with prior years.
That’s one way to clean your books.
Here’s another. In 2010, Congress and the Obama administration expanded school meal programs through a provision in the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act called the “Community Eligibility Provision.”
As Heritage Foundation research explains, this provision allows schools, districts, and even groups of schools located in the same area where 40 percent of student enrollment is eligible for federal assistance (such as food stamps) to offer free meals to all students..."
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