I have just read a staggering report written by my colleagues Patrick D. Tyrell and William W. Beach for the Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (I direct the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at Heritage.)
Between 1988 and 2011, the amount of the U.S. population that receives assistance from the federal government grew by 62 percent. Such a high level of debt always hurts an economy and the people who live in it.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP), operated by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), serves meals to 30 million public and private K–12 students every year.