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19 sty 2007 · The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is one of the largest food and nutrition assistance programs in the United States, feeding millions of chil-dren every day. During the 2006 school year, the program served 28 million lunches daily, on average, at a cost of $8 billion for the year.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation's second-largest food and nutrition assistance program, providing billions of meals to tens of millions of children and adolescents each year.
Preceding today's programs is a long history of more than a hundred years of development, of testing and evaluating, and of constant research to provide the best in nutrition, nutrition education, and food service for the nation's millions of children in school.
The school lunch movement first emerged in Europe in the late nineteenth century. Great Britain and Germany implemented the most extensive feeding programs alongside other benevolence efforts, such as the distribution of clothing and textbooks, under centralized oversight from national governments.
12 mar 2024 · The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other settings.
During the country’s post-WWII recovery, appropriations for school lunch became codified in the 1946 National School Lunch Act, fueling program growth in the baby boom era to 18.9 million participating children by 1967, or about 42 percent of 45 million enrolled students.
1 sty 2014 · This chapter discusses policies concerning foods available to U.S. children in school, including policies about both government subsidized breakfasts and lunches and “competitive” foods such as those available in vending machines and school stores.
