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Download full textEmily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Free school meal access has become increasingly intertwined with federal social safety net programs--including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--to reduce duplicative paperwork for schools. The changes to SNAP that House Republicans have proposed would have downstream effects on free school meal access. The proposed changes to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Political Attitudes, Eligibility
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2025
The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other settings. This report starts with an overview of child nutrition programs' funding…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Food
