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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
Waxman, Elaine; Gupta, Poonam; Pratt, Eleanor; Lyons, Matt; Green, Chloe – Urban Institute, 2021
The Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) program was launched as an effort to address the loss of access to free and reduced-price school meals due to widespread school closures at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As schools reopened in a shifting mix of fully virtual, hybrid, and in-person formats and families lacked consistent access…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
