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4/20/20 Schools Transform Into ‘Relief’ Kitchens, but Federal Aid Fails to Keep Up New York Times
4/30/20 Endless Summer Puts Homebound Kids at Risk for Weight Gain New York Times
7/30/20 What Back to School Might Look Like in the Age of Covid-19 New York Times
9/24/20 How to Tame Your Snack Monster New York Times
10/30/20 Are ‘Kidfluencers’ Making Our Kids Fat? New York Times
11/16/20 Helping Children With Anxiety in the Pandemic New York Times
8/30/19 Helping Children to Learn to Eat Well New York Times
2/10/20 Why Are You Still Packing Lunch for Your Kids? New York Times
3/13/21 Iowa School District announces no-cost meal sites during Spring Break News KWWL
9/11/21 Districts face pricier food, distribution issues News Tribune
3/7/21 As break begins, Duval County Public Schools gives food to students who depend on in-school meals News4JAX
2/23/21 No child left hungry: Holmen nutrition leader pushes for permanent free school lunch News8000.com
12/11/18 SD school district opens donation option on lunch platform Newscenter 1 Rapid City
5/5/23 Unpaid meal debt totaled $19 million this school year NewsNation
7/17/23 Schools worry about cost of providing healthy meals for kids NewsNation
4/27/21 Schools see increase in breakfast meals served, credits nationwide COVID-19 waivers NewsRepublican.com
5/7/20 Children are going hungry without school meals - and it doesn't have to be this way Newsweek
11/7/22 Selfless woman pays off overdue school lunch accounts: 'Makes me cry' Newsweek
11/22/19 Students Who Eat Breakfast Perform Better on Standardized Tests, Study Finds Newsweek
6/14/22 U.S. free school meal program ends June 30 - What next? Newsweek
4/22/24 Schools Nationwide Can Now Apply to Receive a Bulk Milk Grant Newswire
3/20/20 Relief Grants Available to School Food Authorities No Kid Hungry
10/1/20 The Longest Summer; Childhood Hunger in the Wake of Coronavirus No Kid Hungry
4/20/21 USDA Extends School Meal Waivers: Good News for Students, Families, Schools No Kid Hungry
2/10/20 New Report Shows Breakfast After the Bell Can Significantly Reduce Chronic Absenteeism No Kid Hungry
3/13/22 School food access at risk; leaders seek to extend USDA child nutrition programs NorthcentralPA.com
6/12/18 Female teens, young women get less exercise than male counterparts NPR
3/13/20 States Begin Widespread School Closures To Fight Coronavirus NPR
3/24/20 Schools Race To Feed Students Amid Coronavirus Closures NPR
8/25/22 As students go back to school, many face a lunch bill for the first time in 2 years NPR
8/29/22 Maine continues free school meals even though federal program is ending NPR
9/7/22 Hunger advocates want free school meals for all kids. It's tough sell in Congress NPR
10/26/22 End of nationwide federal free lunch program has some states scrambling NPR
11/1/22 Colorado voters to vote on universal free school lunches NPR
11/1/21 Your public school kid's lunch might be served on a pizza slice box. Here's why NPR
11/9/22 Universal free lunch ballot measure passes easily in Colorado NPR
2/3/23 New school meal nutrition standards would limit sugar, sodium NPR
4/10/24 Consumer Reports asks USDA to remove Lunchables from schools' lunch menus NPR
2/2/22 Some families are being forced to choose between remote learning and school meals NPR
2/1/22 Schools scramble to feed kids as supply chain issues persist NPR
3/21/22 Millions of children will miss healthy school meals when pandemic relief expires NPR
3/30/23 States are looking for ways to make free school meals permanent NPR
3/31/23 There's no such thing as a free lunch. Vermont schools say there should be for kids NPR
5/3/23 Schools ended universal free lunch. Now meal debt is soaring NPR
6/16/22 School nutrition pro concerned about child poverty NPR
6/21/22 School meal waivers expire in 9 days. After axing them, Congress may try to save them. NPR
6/25/22 Biden signs the school meal waivers bill into law, but free meals are over for many NPR
2/22/20 Food Fight: How 2 Trump Proposals Could Bite Into School Lunch NPR
7/20/19 If We All Ate Enough Fruits And Vegetables, There'd Be Big Shortages NPR "The Salt" blog
10/24/19 How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience NPR MindShift

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