Public schools have been serving all students free meals during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that is likely coming to an end this summer after federal funding was not extended.
This means that most schools will likely resume the old three-tiered system in which some families don’t pay at all for meals, some pay a reduced price and others pay full price — based on income levels,, director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut.
In 2019, prior to the pandemic, the National School Lunch Program provided low-cost or free lunches to 29.6 million children each school day at a total cost of $14.2 billion, accordingSeveral Democratic senators, including Dianne Feinstein of California, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, had called for an extension of the waiver through Sept. 30, 2023, as part of therecently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden.
The legislation includes $730 billion for domestic programs, the largest increase in four years, along with $782 billion for defense. It also includes emergency funding for Ukraine and European allies. "Without these waivers, federal child nutrition programs will not be able to adequately meet the needs of children as we work to transition beyond COVID-19," aaddressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had stated. "The meals provided through the child nutrition programs are critical to our nation’s pandemic response to childhood hunger.
The Food Research & Action Center, a nonprofit working to end poverty-related hunger and undernutrition in the U.S., also
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