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In FY 2011, federal spending totaled $10.1 billion for the National School Lunch Program. [3] The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. [4]
Michelle Obama lends her support to an ambitious school-lunch bill that provides an additional $4.5 billion in spending, but imposes new standards on all food sold in public schools. The legislation also includes the Community Eligibility Program (CEP), which helps low-income schools feed all their students for free.
(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration announced a rollback of Michelle Obama’s signature initiative for healthy school lunches on Friday, coinciding with the former first lady’s birthday ...
The school lunch adjustments garnered a fair amount of negative feedback during the Obama years, with the sarcastic #ThanksMichelleObama hashtag often accompanying photos of unappetizing lunches ...
The support for RFK Jr’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement comes after Trump’s first administration when he tried to roll back some of the school nutritional standards set in the Obama era
Chefs Move to Schools was founded in May 2010 as part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. [32] The Chefs Move to Schools program is a nationwide effort to teach culinary skills to school children and to get them to try new, healthful food options. [32]
A 2011 article in the Journal of Econometrics, "The impact of the National School Lunch Program on child health: A nonparametric bounds analysis", affirmed the nutritional advantages of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act but found that "children in households reporting the receipt of free or reduced-price school meals through the National School ...
We've all heard complaints about our country's school lunch programs. From campaigns spearheaded by childhood nutrition advocate Michelle Obama to the outcry that ensued when the nation found out ...