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Download full textLeonard, Rodney E. – 1969
The school lunch program has not responded to national needs: the greater the need of the child from a poor neighborhood, the less the community is able to meet it. Of about eight million children whose families cannot afford the cost of a school meal, three million receive a lunch free or at reduced cost; of the five million denied reasonable…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Financial Needs
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1983
This manual delineates procedures for the mandatory verification of 3 percent of the applications for national school food programs. Two methods of selection are described: random and "error prone profiling." The latter involves selecting for verification those applicants whose recorded monthly income is closest to the eligibility cutoff…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Breakfast Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Bagby, Jane W.; And Others – 1988
Large percentages of preschool children in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia live in poverty and receive no benefits from society's "safety nets." County estimates for unemployment and per capita income (1985-1987) indicate that economic conditions are most severe in central West Virginia, eastern Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Infants
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1971
Contents of Part One include, in addition to the testimony of the witnesses called, such materials as: examples of citizen complaints, about the operation of school lunch programs; a report on the nutritional status of preschool Mexican-American farm children; a report on the Demonstration Migrant Nutrition Education Project, Edinburg, Texas; a…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Community Health Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. – 1988
This report presents the testimony of numerous expert witnesses who appeared at three hearings on the following topics: (1) Hunger and Related Nutritional Issues; (2) U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Assistance Programs; and (3) Domestic Hunger and Related Nutritional Issues. The following major issues were discussed: (1) the number of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Nolan, Nelda M.; Gross, John G. – 1972
The report evaluates the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in Missouri by comparing the dietary adequacy and nutrition knowledge of 200 program families representative of urban, small town and rural areas with that of 200 similarly representative non-program families. Data were gathered by personal interviews taken in March,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Demography
Center for the Public Policy Priorities, Austin, TX. – 1995
The final report of the Texas Childhood Hunger Identification Project (Texas CHIP), this document describes the most comprehensive study of childhood hunger undertaken in Texas. Through enumeration and interviewing methods, low-income families from 27 counties in Texas were analyzed in the areas of income allocation, food frequency, homelessness,…
Descriptors: Child Health, Childhood Needs, Children, Disadvantaged Environment
