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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 ( Pub. L. 111–296 (text) (PDF)) 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 ...
School meal programs in the United States. A school lunch tray served in Maine featuring all the MyPlate food groups recommended by the Department of Agriculture. In the United States, school meals are provided at either no cost or at a government-subsidized price, to students from low-income families. These free or subsidized meals have the ...
The School Lunch Program is run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and annually provides more than 3 billion free or reduced-price meals to an estimated 30 million children who qualify based on ...
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]
K-12 schools serve breakfasts and lunches to nearly 30 million children every school day. These meals are the main source of nutrition for more than half of these children, according to the USDA.
By the fall of 2027, added sugars in school meals would be limited to no more than 10% of the total calories per week for breakfasts and lunches, in addition to limites on sugar in specific products.
More. A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have begun to help slow the rise in obesity among America’s children — even teenagers who can buy their own ...
Beyond improvements in access to food, school feeding programs also have a positive impact on nutritional status, gender equity, and educational status, each of which contributes to improving overall levels of country and human development. While school meals are provided by governments of most high and middle-income countries around the globe ...