{"id":12834,"date":"2012-01-27T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:35:03","slug":"new-fed-food-regs-leave-schools-with-1-7-billion-in-unfunded-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12834\/new-fed-food-regs-leave-schools-with-1-7-billion-in-unfunded-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fed Food Regs Leave Schools with $1.7 Billion in Unfunded Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies for <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/61-state-issues\/1281-la-unifieds-school-lunch-crusade-leaves-bad-taste-for-kids-taxpayers\" target=\"_blank\">gorging<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12814\/more-pie-in-the-sky-thinking-from-school-lunch-czars\/\" target=\"_blank\">disastrous impact<\/a> of meddlesome food czars, but the news is even worse than kids throwing away uneaten salads and smuggling in junk food to curb their hunger pangs.\u00a0 According to the Federal Register, the Agricultural Department\u2019s new calorie caps on federally subsidized breakfasts and lunches will hit local school districts with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2012-01-26\/pdf\/2012-1010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">an additional <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$1.7 billion<\/span><\/em> in mandated, uncompensated spending<\/a> over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is twofold.\u00a0 First, the new regulations require schools to spend money on higher priced foods like whole grains and fresh produce to stay below the calorie cap.\u00a0 Second, the feds are only contributing an average funding increase of 6 cents per meal \u2013 an amount that falls far short of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2012\/01\/26\/MN6Q1MUC7V.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">estimated 10 cents increase for each lunch and 27 cents increase for each breakfast<\/a> that will result from the new rules.\u00a0 Thus, a $1.7 billion deficit gets passed onto cash-strapped school districts.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever one thinks about the propriety of trying to force kids to eat healthier foods at school \u2013 and there are compelling reasons to consider some of the proposals \u2013 no can argue that yet another underfunded mandate is a serious long-term solution to this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies for gorging on the disastrous impact of meddlesome food czars, but the news is even worse than kids throwing away uneaten salads and smuggling in junk food to curb their hunger pangs.\u00a0 According to the Federal Register, the Agricultural Department\u2019s new calorie caps on federally subsidized breakfasts and lunches will hit local school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3307,1450,1155,300,3310,2074],"class_list":["post-12834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-czar","tag-federal","tag-food","tag-regulation","tag-school","tag-unfunded-mandate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12834"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12844,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834\/revisions\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}