Most hardworking Americans can’t afford to spend $21 to $31 on dinner every day. If they did, they’d likely expect to get steak or lobster for their money.
That's exactly how much the state of Massachusetts is spending to feed homeless migrants, according to WBZ-TV CBS Boston.
The $21 meals come from the Fairfield Inn Boston Dedham, where the state is paying $180 a day to house homeless families and migrants-even though advertisements show hotel rooms start at $129. Lunch costs $16, but a family interviewed by CBS Boston said it contains "Nothing edible," such as soup with "Just bones" in it.
It's part of 17 state contracts worth $116 million that Massachusetts signed to provide free housing to migrants in hotels and motels through June, according to records obtained by CBS Boston.
The state told CBS Boston that the ravioli contract, which ended in March, was justified by the "Unprecedented increased demand" for food.
In addition to the hotel expenses, Massachusetts spends about $75 million every month on 7,500 migrant families living in state-run emergency shelters.
The federal government agreed in April to help Massachusetts by using Medicaid funds, which Axios Boston says could cost $647.5 million over the next four years.
State Sen. Peter Durant, a Republican, told CBS Boston of the hotel contracts, "This is something that we have been asking the administration for information on, for the better part of a year and have been stonewalled on the information." Something is amiss when taxpayers are spending more to feed those in emergency housing than to feed their own children.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/24/massachusetts-paying-up-31-per-meal-feed-illegal-immigrants/
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