The School Breakfast Program, which at $4.2 billion receives less than one-third the funding of National School Lunch, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016, propelled by steady growth from its start in 1966 when it served 80,000 students, to 2017 when it served nearly 15 million. Efforts to broaden student…
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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…
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…