as of 2016. On face, it seems like a program we can all agree is good: Providing school lunch is almost universally lauded as something that improves student learning outcomes and produces long-term social benefits. A 2021 analysis conducted by the Rockefeller Foundation found thatin “benefits to society through improvements in health outcomes and poverty reduction.”
But since 1946, when President Harry S. Truman signed the National School Lunch Act into law, school lunch programs have frequently been a target for political fights on both sides of the political aisle — mostly related to differing opinions about what constitutes “big government” and the costs of feeding America’s schoolchildren. First lady Michelle Obama made
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