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From Center on Budget: Food Assistance:

Overview In anticipation of Congressional reauthorization of the federal child nutrition programs, some have called for increased federal reimbursement rates for school meals to improve their nutritional quality. [1] Under current rules, however, federal payments for free and reduced price meals are not used solely to underwrite the cost of producing those meals. Research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has consistently shown that in some school food programs, the … Read more from this post.