For Immediate Release: September 12, 2012
Contact: Lynne Richmond (609) 633-2954
(TRENTON) -- All day care facilities and their participants should be aware that children and adults enrolled in day care facilities may be eligible for free meals through the Child and Adult Care Food Program coordinated by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally-funded program that reimburses sponsoring agencies that provide healthy meals and snacks at no charge to children and adults enrolled in licensed or approved day care facilities or family day care homes.
Meals are available at no separate charge to all enrolled participants in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and are served without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
Following are the Income Eligibility Guidelines used in determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals for the period from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013:
ELIGIBILITY INCOME SCALE
Effective from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013
Family Size
Free Yearly Income
Reduced Yearly Income
1
$14,521
$20,665
2
$19,669
$27,991
3
$24,817
$35,317
4
$29,965
$42,643
Each Additional
Family Member
+$ 5,148
+$7,326
The Child and Adult Care Food Program is funded by the Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and is operated in accordance with USDA policy, which does not permit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability in the meal service, admissions policy or use of any Adult Food Program facility.
To file a complaint of discrimination, write to the USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or call, toll free, (866) 632-9992 (Voice), (800) 877-8339 (TDD) or (866) 377-8642 (Relay Voice Users). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
To learn more about the CACFP and the participating centers in a particular area, contact the New Jersey Department of Agriculture at (609) 984-1250. For more information about any of USDA’s nutrition assistance programs, write to the USDA, Food and Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Division, 3101 Park Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302, or visit the web site at http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Care/.
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Look, I'm a little slow on the uptake so maybe you can help me... "Anyone that took economics knows that a nation collects the same amount of dollars at 100% tax rate as it would at 0% tax rate..." I guess I'm not "Anyone" so maybe you can enlighten me. While you're at it maybe you can point to an example of how that theory worked out, as well. BTW, we've spent trillions on welfare since Lyndon Johnson instituted his Great Society, could you please elaborate on the huge returns that has produced? As for austerity only applicable in times of plenty, tell it to the Greeks and the Spanish, you'll probably find a better audience there if you can get them to stop rioting long enough to listen to you. BTW, you almost had me thinking you were serious until you implied that printing money was a good thing and an obligation in times like these. Do you even read what you write, Billy?
Just a simple start.
"a single parent has to make under 19k to get free meals. that is just over a grand in take home pay." Is that misstated; if not, what does that mean?
You feed em Take a look at the cars the parents of the free meals are driving. Better yet, drive over to the subsidized housing next to Whole Foods and see the Hummer, the Lexus SUV, the new Mustang and other luxury cars driven by the parents of subsidized housing, utilities, EBT, cell phones, day care .......
With regards to austerity, if you had a farm and grew tons and tons of corn, you'd be a fool to eat it all just because you had a decent harvest. Most people would stow the majority of it away, and consume it during the lean months. I do think you mistake my compassion for being naive. I think we are wasting money on straight handouts, and must somehow tie some if not most to work. But denying Americans access to basic necessities is not what I believe in. I think we too often confuse needs and wants. Food, shelter, clothes, and basic healthcare should somehow be made available to everyone.
Not true at all. The system is not state run nor is it the dregs. The US 'system' is the 'dregs' aka ranked 48th in the industrialized world. And do not let me get started on the paper work nightmare here ...
really? Sounds like you want your children to be like Oliver Twist ..
It might also be helpful to read the article. The food programs are also for ADULTS in day programs. Perhaps you should go down to your local senior center and tell a 90 year old veteran that their "parents bred em, so they should a fed em."
--but HEY, where would the Socialists (disguised as Democrats) be without legalized plunder?
Again, I ask: Where is the justice and fairness in not taxing the owners of these rental properties for the cost of educating the tennants' children in the public school system? The builders of these units don't put them up out of love, they do it for buck -- and they do it on the backs of property tax payers. Using the logic of the Socialists bankrupting this state, we should be "entitled" to a Lotus Esprit Sports car. At $115,000 that's a bargain since it costs about $230K to raise a child until age 18. Oh wait, I forgot! I actually have a thing called "moral compass"!! I know that it's WRONG to make babies I can't feed...it's the same reason why I don't use the meager college fund my spouse and I building to put out kids through school for a Lotus Esprit. What the heck is wrong with these people??? RE: "Jack Spratt 10:33 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012 Take a look at the cars the parents of the free meals are driving. Better yet, drive over to the subsidized housing next to Whole Foods and see the Hummer, the Lexus SUV, the new Mustang and other luxury cars driven by the parents of subsidized housing, utilities, EBT, cell phones, day care ......."
His middle name is Hussein, get the f*ck over it. I suppose we shouldn't name kids Jeff or Jefferson since the President of the Confederacy i.e. essentially treason against the US was named Jefferson.
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