" said Patti Bilbrey, director of nutrition services at the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona. "It wasn't just about keeping food costs low it meant supporting your community and your local farmers in your state."
The Local Food for Schools program "was a godsend to us," Bilbrey said. "It keeps our meal costs down, and we're helping our community, which improves the perception of school meals." One farmer in Massachusettstold CBS News Bostonthat she was concerned the funding cut could hurt her...
Millions of children could lose free school meals as food costs rise, warns School Nutrition Association president The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed two programs that provided more than $1bn for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and ranchers.About $660m...
Presents information on the food support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for schools through the National School Lunch Program in 2004. Decline in milk prices; Plan of USDA regarding the purchase of canned fruits; Purchase of turkey products by USDA. INSET: McGovern-Dole funds ...
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schools to provide universal free meals without an application. Restricting eligibility for food assistance programs and requiring income verification for free or reduced price school meals, two proposals for cutting costs, would also likely cut out eligible families from accessing food, the School ...
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Roughly $660 million was earmarked for the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program. The program helps states buy domestic local food for school and childcare facilities,according to the USDA’s website. The rest of the money was earmarked for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperat...
As for the potential for a reversal, we should all be disgusted by the cruelty in requiring people who’ve benefited from these programs, hungry school children and people reliant on food banks, to hang their hopes of being fed on Musk or Rollins having an epiphany about their ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools by terminating two programs that aid state, tribal and territorial government food purchases. The buy-local programs support the