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What support for free school lunch looks like. In 2021, California and Maine became the first two states to pass legislation for universal free lunches at public schools.
With federal support uncertain and eventually ending, some states began using their own funds for an extension of pandemic-era free universal school lunches. In 2021, California became the first state to have a universal school meal program for the state's public school students, followed shortly by Maine, in time for the 2021-2022 school year ...
According to a program fact sheet, children can qualify for free school lunches under certain criteria, including if they participate in other federal programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition ...
For the 2021-2022 school year, all students were eligible to receive free school lunch and breakfast, regardless of their family’s income. This policy was instituted in 2020 during the pandemic ...
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–296 (text)) is a federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 13, 2010. The law is part of the reauthorization of funding for child nutrition (see the original Child Nutrition Act). It funded child nutrition programs and free lunch programs in schools for 5 years. [1]
The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools. [1]
For two years, school lunches were free in the US. Now, parents burdened with inflation have to pay up, go into debt, or let their kids go hungry.
As a new school year ramps up, millions of students are adjusting to life without free school breakfasts and lunches for all, regardless of parents' income.