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NSLP Program History (163.67 KB) Background and Development. by Gordon W. Gunderson 1. School food service programs such as we have in 1971 did not just happen over-night nor even during the past decade.
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.
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.
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]
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation’s second largest food and nutrition assistance program. In 2006, it operated in over 101,000 public and nonprofit private schools and provided over 28 million low-cost or free lunches to children on a typical school day at a Federal cost of $8 billion for the year.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.
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.
