Baylen Linnekin on the Continuing Embarrassment of the School Lunch Program

School lunches still stink. But now unprecedented
numbers of students are refusing to eat them. Last month Baylen
Linnekin noted that a GAO report had found that last school year’s
disastrous rollout of the updated USDA National School Lunch
Program helped drive 1.6 million paying students from the lunch
rolls. The new rules led some schools to abandon the program, as
Linnekin reported in 2012. What’s more, the new rules, championed
by First Lady Michelle Obama, have also resulted in unprecedented
mountains of food waste.

In response, the federal government has decided that these
abject failures are evidence of a need to double down on the school
lunch program. Why scrap a failing program when you can expand it
instead?

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