Over 2 billion meals a year: A brief history of the school breakfast program

Free school breakfasts, in one form or another, have been a mainstay of American education for nearly a century. Increasingly, schools and state administrations are developing new ways to meet the needs of children who suffer from food insecurity across the United States. The longstanding national School Breakfast Program is a federally funded program that […]

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