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USFA is a leading voice in the child nutrition industry, advocating for school meals to ensure that all of America’s students have access to high-quality, nutritious food at no cost. USFA strategically partners with like-minded organizations to advance its mission and promote research-based nutrition policy.
TIME: Front Line Workers Tell Their Own Stories in the New Issue of TIME
Most weeks, deciding what to put on our cover is the subject of great internal debate. This week, it was simple. TIME reports on the people who shape the world, and the cover often features the most influential among them: heads of state, titans of industry, icons of...
COVID-19 Response Best Practices For Meal Service
KCET: The Challenges of Feeding Hungry School Kids in a Time of Crisis
The truth is, it's hard to feed kids on average days. From pandemics to natural disasters, a crisis only amplifies the challenges school food programs face regularly. The last couple of weeks have demonstrated this, as people and systems respond to COVID-19 and its...
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Smerconish: We Must Preserve the Food Security Safety Net in Our Schools
Jun 21, 2022
School meal programs have prevented children from hunger and malnutrition for decades. Available in almost every...
NewsNation: Federal free school meal waivers set to expire June 30
Jun 9, 2022
On July 1, the universal free school lunch will be no more. The federal pandemic-era waivers that provided free...
Bloomberg Law: Hunger ‘Cliff’ Looms as Pandemic School-Lunch Aid Is Running Out
Jun 6, 2022
Schools and child-feeding sites are bracing for rising costs and supply disruptions as federal meal subsidies run...
Vox: A program that helps millions of hungry kids is about to expire
Jun 1, 2022
One of the most fundamental and intuitive facts about learning is that it’s hard to focus, or really do much of...