Lee's Legacy: Leaving More Kids Behind
Lee lets hunger win to prove a political point
For the first time in five years, the majority of low-income students across Tennessee will not receive supplemental grocery funds this summer to help bridge the months when they aren’t receiving school meals.
Tennessee this week will send one-time $120 payments to an estimated 25,000 low-income students in 15 counties to help pay for summer grocery costs. Tennessee’s largest counties, including Shelby and Davidson, are excluded from the program.
The program is a significant rollback of Tennessee’s previous summer food benefits initiative, which served an estimated 700,000 students across the state each summer since 2020 with the help of a state-federal partnership.
But at least Gov. Bill Lee can prove that Tennessee doesn’t need the federal government to help.
The Wall Street Journal digs deeper into a story I wrote about back in February.
When the federal government offered to cover the cost of feeding Tennessee’s poor children last summer, state officials accepted the cash.
Some $84 million in federal money flowed into Tennessee. The families of 700,000 kids were given $120 per child to buy food during the summer months when school is out.
Washington made the same offer for the coming summer. This time, Tennessee said no.
He doesn't care since in his view they are mostly children of color and poor.
Yet he publicly declares himself to be a Christian. Didn't Jesus say to feed the hungry in Matthew 25: 31-40? I wonder how Lee justifies his hypocrisy.