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Download full textEmily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Free school meal access has become increasingly intertwined with federal social safety net programs--including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--to reduce duplicative paperwork for schools. The changes to SNAP that House Republicans have proposed would have downstream effects on free school meal access. The proposed changes to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Political Attitudes, Eligibility
Liana Washburn; Veronica Severn; Brett Eiffes; Myah Scott; Sophia Navarro; Kevin Conway – US Department of Agriculture, 2025
This report summarizes findings from the School Meals Operations Study (SMO), part of an ongoing series to assess school meal operations on a school year (SY) basis. This volume of the study covers July 2021 through the end of September 2022 and includes SY 2021-2022. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, the Families First Coronavirus…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2025
The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other settings. This report starts with an overview of child nutrition programs' funding…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Food
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
House Republicans have passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which now goes to the Senate for consideration. The goal is to pass the bill by July, though final content and timeline are subject to change. The bill puts forth several changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aimed at reducing federal spending…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Lunch Programs
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2025
After 21 years, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) has published the second Camden Kids Count Data Book, a one-stop source for child well-being data. Camden Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five- or six-year trend data, in the following areas: demographics, family economic security, child health, child protection,…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Race, Ethnicity
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2025
The goal of Advocates for Children of New Jersey's (ACNJ) Kids Count Project is to provide a snapshot of child well-being to policymakers, advocates, grant-makers, and the public to help inform critical decisions for children and families. Post COVID-19, new data regarding children and families continue to emerge, starting to reveal some…
Descriptors: Well Being, Racial Composition, Ethnicity, Access to Health Care
