Minnesota's free school meals program more expensive than expected

There is such a thing as a free lunch, at least for students at Minnesota schools. And the new universal free school meals program has led to schools serving 2.2 million more this September than the year before. But the lunches do come at a cost to taxpayers, and it's rising.
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[@kpac3089]

Any follow-up news on the Feeding Our Future fraud case where a community in Minneapolis took hundreds of millions of dollars to live lavish lifestyles including purchasing land in foreign countries while MN children went hungry?

[@wtfminny]

Of course they won’t. This story is as close to criticism as the DFL gets in Minnesota.

[@jimmyhurley504]

No child should live hungry.

[@southmountain111]

show me the receipt. i feel like someone is jacking up the price so they can pocket the profit

[@billwilmot4820]

To fund "waltz the walrus" retirement fund

[@pennylane36]

It’s actually quite expensive. I worked school food service for 17 years, left in 2019. I think the biggest expense was fresh fruit. We were feeding about 100 elementary kids for breakfast and around 40 middle school high schoolers for breakfast each day and for lunch it was around 300 elementary and 160 middle/ high school. Our weekly fsa order was between $700-$1000 then we had milk, bread, and fruit, so around $1,800 a week and we also got commodities from the usda to add to the food. Commodities were canned foods, frozen foods and dry goods supplied to us from the usda

[@thomasmurphy9348]

Wait til you see the waste.

[@JeffHenry-cq3is]

Follow the money Will find a rat

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

So far this will cost the taxpayers $560 million every 2 years and goes up from there! MINNEAPOLIS IS NOW GETTING ILLEGAL ALIENS INVADERS BEING BUSED FROM NEW YORK CITY!

[@imalive4u169]

It's not really free if taxpayers are paying for the breakfast/lunches.

[@gzmain78]

Why not try to get help from the free food shelters? There is plenty of food that goes to waste

[@redmoss24]

Incarcerated people could be doing the cooking and save tons of money!

[@TheJanet4321]

it all sounds very fishy on the part of the owner. Should be a class action lawsuit against them.

[@marknelson2905]

Remember kids, it is the democrats feeding you, not republicans. So just waste it away, get those grades up, and take a nap until the next news case. Your grades will base on equity, not performance. Good luck to you.

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

So far this will cost the taxpayers $560 million every 2 years and goes up from there! MINNEAPOLIS IS NOW GETTING ILLEGAL ALIENS INVADERS BEING BUSED FROM NEW YORK CITY!

[@eugeniaperry4278]

More kids are homeless and hungry 🙏🏾Minnesota got the money 💴

[@Phomloj1991]

No children should ever be hungry. I grow up in CA in the 90's as a kid. I remember i eat free and my parent never had to pay a dime for my meal because the state of CA has a large budget so they can afford it

[@petercao904]

If you can’t afford to feed your kids then don’t have kids.

[@jenniferd2305]

Dems know that tax money will pay for all their kids , so why stop? 🙄

[@rickyt7666]

Yeah but that’s not realistic so better to try something else.

[@jenniferd2305]

I wish they’d stop calling it “free” lunches. Our tax dollars are paying for this and Waltz is being treated as a hero for spending our money. What a joke!

[@Agtsmirnoff]

@@rickyt7666 So waste a bunch of money feeding everyone rather than just those in need?

[@DanRux-r1e]

The justification of this just stupid. Just think about it even if people can afford it or not they simply are going to take advantage of something perceived to be free. Even rich people will take advantage of free stuff how do you think they got rich.

[@amandawidenhofer894]

Were allll tax papers so if its for our kids🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ good..great😊

[@trumpwon8064]

These kids aren't Americans

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

So far this will cost the taxpayers $560 million every 2 years and goes up from there! MINNEAPOLIS IS NOW GETTING ILLEGAL ALIENS INVADERS BEING BUSED FROM NEW YORK CITY!

[@lyngruen8607]

STOP putting a price on the LIFE OF A CHILD. EVERY CHILD should have lunch....and NOT receive shame because it's unaffordable to them. VALUE OF LIFE NEEDS TO RETURN FULL FOLD. 🙏💖