The College Fix

I have a piece in The Daily Caller today:

But earlier this month, the state of Michigan discovered that there were 30,000 college students receiving food stamps under a program called the Michigan Bridge Card. This mass fraud stemmed from a loophole in state law, which required officials to consider income, rather than assets, when assessing an applicant’s eligibility for welfare. As a result, thousands of students were able to qualify for the $200-per-month food stipend, regardless of their actual material conditions.

It should go without saying that college students do not typically belong to the subset of the population that deserves welfare checks. Tuition, textbooks and room and board cost tens of thousands of dollars. If a student is already meeting such massive financial demands (with help from parents, most likely), an extra $200 probably isn’t going to be the difference between starvation and survival. It may be the difference between one Starbucks latte per day and two, but is that really a difference that taxpayers should subsidize?

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