The National School Lunch Program is the largest of the school-based food-assistance programs, receiving $13.6 billion in federal dollars in 2017, more than three times the amount as the School Breakfast Program. It is available in 95% of the nation’s schools, and served about 30 million children every day in…
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the big daddy of all the food-related federal aid programs. At $68 billion in 2017, SNAP was five times as large as the next biggest program, National School Lunch. At least 42 million people (about 13% of the nation’s population) participated in SNAP in…