Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, The Biden administration just issued a new directive. If 25 percent of a school is low income, then everybody gets a free lunch. Free Lunch for Everybody The Wall Street Journal comments on Biden’s Free Lunch for Rich Kids There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but the Biden administration insists otherwise. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to provide free lunches to children—including many whose parents earn six-figure incomes—year-round. As usual, this story begins with a supposedly temporary program. As schools closed in 2020, Congress allowed states to send extra payments to families whose children qualified for free and reduced-price school lunches. The following year, it added summer payments to the package, depositing money directly onto families’ electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, cards, which are used for food stamps. Finally, in December 2022, Congress made this “Summer EBT” program permanent—beginning in mid-2024. The USDA would automatically enroll millions of families and create a separate, means-tested application process for others. The White House is now exceeding what Congress …