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Download full textChris Edwards – Cato Institute, 2025
The US Department of Agriculture runs a large array of farm and food subsidy programs. The school lunch and breakfast programs are two of the largest, which together with related school food programs will cost federal taxpayers an estimated $35 billion in 2025. Thirty million children, about 58 percent of students in public schools, receive school…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Food, Public Schools
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2025
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) provide federal funding for school lunches and breakfasts served to nearly 30 million children daily in close to 94,000 schools. Because federal spending on NSLP and SBP depends in part on student participation in school meals, it may be of interest to Congress to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Student Participation, Eligibility
