Idea of the Day: Don't Take Funds From One Child Nutrition Program to Pay for Another
Last month, the Senate passed a bill that aims to reduce hunger and obesity. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act will reauthorize the nation’s child nutrition programs such as School Breakfast, School Lunch, summer feeding, and the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program for pregnant women, infants, and children. There is much to like about this bill, which improves the nutritional quality of school meals and invests in strategies to enhance access to healthy foods.
Unfortunately (and ironically), the legislation proposes to pay for the bill’s improvements with $2.2 billion in cuts to improvements made to food stamp...benefits in the Recovery Act.
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