(noun)
1. A suspiciously low-quality or phony “learning center” (often misspelled on the sign as “Lear
ing Center”) that receives millions in taxpayer-funded childcare subsidies while showing no signs of actual
children or educational activity.
Coined from the infamous Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis, spotlighted in viral investigations amid Minnesota’s massive Somali-linked welfare fraud scandals, where such centers allegedly serve more as cash grabs than places for
kids to learn ABCs.
(verb) to lear
To fraudulently bill the
government for nonexistent services, especially in childcare or nutrition programs, while barely pretending to operate.
“That
empty building getting $4 million in grants? Total learing scam – no
kids, no learning, just learing the system.”
“They were learing millions from the
state before the feds shut it down.”