A federally assisted meal program in the United States, established by the National School Lunch Act that President Harry Truman signed in 1946 and administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It provides free or reduced-price lunches to children in participating public and nonprofit private schools. The Act's supporters cited, among other justifications, wartime findings that malnutrition had disqualified a significant share of young men from military service. The program serves roughly 30 million children on a typical school day and, alongside the School Breakfast Program, forms one of the main channels through which the federal government addresses childhood food insecurity and diet quality.
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Program Status Sponsoring BodyUnited States Department of Agriculture 1 Geographic Scope Measured ResultsServes roughly 30 million children on a typical school day across public and nonprofit private schools 1 Classification
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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationLead section, National School Lunch Act article
The National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools.
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A federally assisted meal program in the United States, established by the National School Lunch Act that President Harry Truman signed in 1946 and administered by the U.S.
- In Category: Public Health Programs
- Associated With: Nutrition Science
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