Topic: School Nutrition Association
Struggling families increasingly seek help paying for school meals amid blistering recessionFor a couple tight weeks after taking in her sixth-grade stepson, Lisa Lewis fretted about how to pay for his school lunches.Unable to find a full-time job, the 37-year-old works part-time ...
America's public schools are losing money on every free meal served to students under the National School Lunch Program, according to a new report from the School Nutrition Association (SNA). During the 2008-2009 school year, said the SNA, 800,000 additional students participated ...
In tough economy more struggling families feed their children with free school lunch programsA government program that serves free lunches to low-income children has become a rapidly growing resource for families that find themselves blindsided by the depressed economy.Janey Thornton, director of ...
