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Newman, Constance; Ralston, Katherine – US Department of Agriculture, 2006
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) serves more than 29 million children each day, but there is little information on the characteristics of those children. This study reports new estimates of NSLP participant characteristics using two national surveys: the 2001 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the 1999-2002…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, National Programs, Lunch Programs, National Surveys
Newman, Constance; Ralston, Katherine – US Department of Agriculture, 2006
In 2004, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) served an average of 29 million lunches daily, at a Federal cost of $7.6 billion. Schools are reimbursed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) according to the number of each type of meal served. FNS administrative data do not include information on the…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, National Programs, Lunch Programs, National Surveys
Lerman, Robert I.; McKernan, Signe-Mary; Pindus, Nancy – Rural America, 2001
The 1996 welfare reforms narrowed rural-urban differences in employment for both less-educated and more-educated single mothers, and raised the employment rate of single mothers, overall and for all racial/ethnic groups except nonmetro Hispanics. These findings suggest that the aggregate effects of obstacles to employment are no greater in…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Fatherless Family