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School lunch prices by year reveal how cafeteria costs rose from spare change to today’s $3 meals. See what lunch cost when ...
A vast majority of school nutrition directors say their programs are challenged by food, labor, and equipment costs; staffing shortages; and procurement issues. Those are the core findings of an ...
Like so many other federal food and agriculture programs, the U.S. school lunch program had its origins in President Franklin Roosevelt’s First 100 Days legislative blitz to help Americans recover ...
The public school lunch program officially began in the 1970s. But lunch was served decades before as teachers realized that hungry students had trouble learning and that childhood hunger was a big ...
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WSBT) — When School City of Mishawaka (SCM) students go back to school in two days, parents won’t have to worry about packing a lunch or sending lunch money. That is because the ...
An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...
School lunch has evolved quite a bit over the last century. Serving a standard lunch to school children started, in both Europe and the United States, with private organizations who were interested in ...