There is nothing noble or good about it. Similarly, it is not about children or chickens.
It is about further burdening the system in an effort to crash it.
Though the clods that start such programs likely don't realize that that is exactly what they are doing (mainly due to abject stupidity). The leftist leadership has been exceptionally effective at conditioning their followers to think that if the cause 'appears' noble and good, it is. So they fight tooth and nail for it even though it is obvious that in the long run, there is nothing noble or good about the aforementioned cause and in the end it will turn out to be very bad for the children. No matter though, because when the end of that program comes and all the bad stuff starts happening to the 'children' they'll fix it with another equally-sounding noble and good program that, in the long run, will turn out (again) to be bad for the children.
Incrementalism has gotten us here and it continues to bedevil us all.