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School Meals and Other Child Nutrition Programs: Background and Funding. CRS Report R46234, Version 5. Updated
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Billings, Kara Clifford – Congressional Research Service, 2021
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 institutional settings. The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Food
2014 Kids Count in Colorado! The Big Picture: Taking the Whole Child Approach to Child Well-Being
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Colorado Children's Campaign, 2014
"Kids Count in Colorado!" is an annual publication of the Colorado Children's Campaign, which provides the best available state- and county-level data to measure and track the education, health and general well-being of the state's children. "Kids Count in Colorado!" informs policy debates and community discussions, serving as…
Descriptors: Child Health, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach
Oversight Hearing on Restoring Funding to the Child Nutrition Programs. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
Three witnesses gave testimony at this hearing on restoring $150 million in entitlement funding to Federal child nutrition programs. They were Ernest Morial, Mayor of New Orleans, representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Task Force on Joblessness and Hunger; Faith Gravenmier, representing the American School Food Service Association; and Lynn…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Oversight on Administration's Budget Proposals for Child Nutrition Program. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session. Hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 1983.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
The first witness in this hearing was the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Department of Agriculture, who presented the Reagan Administration's 1984 budget proposals for cuts in child nutrition programs. The proposals included changes in the school lunch program, a freeze on the funding level of the WIC program, elimination of…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Breakfast Programs, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Impact of Budget Cuts on Children: Background Materials for Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, 97th Congress, 2nd Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1982
Prepared for joint hearings on the impact of the proposed budget cuts on programs affecting children, these background materials describe the main programs which serve children in five general areas. These areas are health services for mothers and children, child nutrition programs, aid to families with dependent children, day care and other child…
Descriptors: Adoption, Block Grants, Breakfast Programs, Children