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Free meal programs
For 2 years, there was such a thing as a free lunch — at public schools. Not anymore.
Aug 18, 2022
The pandemic relief program that provided free meals was an outlier in the 75-year history of the federal school lunch program.
Military family advocates hope to make it easier for active duty military to get some food aid
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Peggy Lowe
May 10, 2018
Nearly a quarter of children in schools on military bases are eligible for free meals, according to 2015 data from the Department of Defense, the latest available. That’s just one indication that many active duty members of the U.S. military don’t have enough food to feed their families. That is in part because of the […]