holidays. this wouldn t take effect until april butt what effect would tt have on those receiving these benefits now?in right now you re talking about y single people but when e effects get e panded in the coming year we re talking about children who are on reduced lunch programs. we re talking about disabled americans and those who are care taking for those disabled americans. if you makele over about $2500 year, if you have that amount in assets, then you also will have your food stamps taken away. we re talking a couple thousand in assets and that s about $3,500 if you re talking about disabled people. so the threshold is if yould own a car? if you own a car and spent $3,000, the christmassp holiday that s your entire assets. that s a meaningful change. danielle, i saw this news come across. it was subsumed by all we ve been talking about and nd following. speak to that, if you would. a change of this magnitude being made and our inability in this environment to reckon wit
you know, then i realized this has happened, there are 30.3 million students in this country on reduced and free lunch programs. that s a lot of kids. it s a lot of lunches. and i ve had responses from people around the country who say they grew up on free lunch programs and were stigmatized by it. that shouldn t happen. this is our future generation. these are the people that are going to run our country. yes. those children need fuel for their bodies. it doesn t matter how much that costs. it should be a no brainer for children in the country to be fed. exactly. i want to take a moment here to point out that the school nutrition association says 75% of school districts reported having unpaid student meal debt at the end of the 2016-2017 school year. this is an extremely common issue. and the u.s. department of agriculture has mandated that schools must develop plans for kids with deficit accounts. they strongly discourage lunch
grade will receive standard lunch at school regardless of their account balance. diane, what do you think of the school s response now? well, i was very happy that they responded in a positive manner. and the assistant superintendent came out to speak to me. and she asked me if i was happy with the situation. and which i was. but you know, then i realized that there is 30.3 million students in this country on reduced and free lunch programs. that is a lot of kids. so it is a lot of lunches. and i ve had responses from people around the country who say that they grew up on free lunch programs and were stigmatized by it. and this shouldn t happen. these are the people that will run our country. so children need fuel for their bodies. it doesn t matter how much that costs. should be a no-brainer for children to be fed. exactly. i want to take a moment here
after the death of my father. that included different programs including lunch programs and food stamps. reporter: so when he heard a pennsylvania school district was struggling to collect lunch money, he offered to pay off $22,000 in debt. to his surprise during a phone call, the school district said no thanks. ultimately the person on the other end of the line hung up on us. there was really no room to negotiate. reporter: last week the wyoming valley west school district sparked outrage sending letters threatening parents who owed lunch money that their kids could be put in foster care. it s borders on criminal if you ask me. reporter: officials backed off and apologized to parents. like today they changed their minds about carmichael s offer and accepted his
off lunch programs. laura: he wanted grandma to eat alpo. remember that guys? ketchup was a vegetable, too. this is a pattern that plays itself out many times. when eisenhower was president, liberals said he couldn t reed if his lips were chapped, barry gold water was attacked and denounced as crazy now he s held up by liberals as a para gone of virtue. the left hated richard nixon. i saw a lefty favor richard nixon to donald trump, gerald ford, both bushes were hated by the left until they were no longer in office, then they become convenient tools to bash the current occupant of the white house, it s nothing new but especially with reagan. they know nothing about reagan. as i said earlier to you this