On the other hand, students in order to participate, they must submit a school year- application that includes their self- report income, their size of household and other additional services in used like TANF, SNAP or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservation(FRPIR) (Ralston et al. pg. 4, 2008). If a student receives any of these last 3 services, they are automatically certified and enrolled to receive free lunch. Students also that fall 130 percent of the Federal Poverty line will receive free lunches, while students falling within 130 and 150 percent will receive reduced price lunches. The most recent data for the 2004-2005 SNDA, for example, show that among the students served, Hispanics represented 78% of the participation rate, …show more content…
By law, however, the NSLP cannot charge more than $.40 cents per reduced lunch. In addition, the 2004-2005 SNDA III also reveal that students coming from low income families and between the ages of 8 to 10 participate at a higher level rate than students coming from high income households and between the ages of 10 to 18. Finally, the SNDA also show that 77.6% of the students assisted come from food secure households compare to 16.6% of participants coming from low food insecure homes and 5.7% coming from very food insecure homes (Ralston et al. pg. 10, 2008). This is ironic because the NSLP should target students suffering from high levels of food insecurity as opposed to food secure …show more content…
However, despite the intention of protecting the “Nation’s Children”, the NSLP did not aligned with the values of the welfare state and instead what it lead was a neoliberal agenda that only seek to commodify students for profit, while bringing them under the brink of food insecurity. According to Patricia Allen (2005) in from “Old school” to “farm-to-school”: Neoliberalization from the ground up, the 1946 NSLP created a neoliberal agenda when it started to push more for the interest of commodities over the interest of students. Since its introduction in 1946, the NSLP already claimed to be an antipoverty and national security act. This meant that it was already part of the NSLP provision to support the domestic market by allowing governmental commodity purchases that will increase the price of goods in the national market, while in turn preventing another collapse. Thus, as a result of the NSLP act, many of the school lunches come from large scale domestic products. According to the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA), governmental commodity purchases represent 17 percent or less of national school meals, which is a percentile enough to shape how students and children generally eat. That said, many critics believe that the NSLP’s dependency on
According to the “Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet” on Feeding America’s website, in 2014 there were over 48 million Americans living in food insecure households, which included 15 million children. During the school year, these children rely on free or reduce breakfast and lunch. When the summer vacation months arrive, these children loose the security of these meals. Feeding America, working alongside the United States Department of Agriculture, provide free summer meals to these children. Unfortunately, not all children and families are aware that these programs are taking place; therefore missing out on a vital resource to help stretch their food dollars throughout the summer
Schools are spending too much money with this program that could be spent on other benefits for schools. Rather than using the money to get students new technology or property it 's wasted on a lunch program that students do not enjoy nor want to purchase. In the Article, “School Lunch Food is Not Fresh, Students Say” Journalist Audrey Levine interviews high school students about they feel about their school lunches. “It’s way too expensive now, but I’m still buying,” said senior Stephanie Huang. “And I don’t think more people are bringing lunch because
has to spend more money on changing school lunch system from eliminating unnecessary spending portion of system and create farming class. As reported by Cooper, “ The National School Lunch Program needs 8 billion dollars to feed 30 million children a year to serve high quality foods.” However, this price of amount has to be double to serve healthy foods to students because our next generation has to grow up with high quality foods not with low quality foods. Moreover, according to Cooper, the U.S. spends more than 100 million dollars on fast foods portion which the U.S. suppose to spend less amount of money on fast foods to improve the entire food system of the country. If the U.S. government lower the expense of fast food system and raises the amount of money for school lunches, entire schools of the U.S. would get positive results. For example, students could brainstorm very fast as Albert Einstein, and gain more energy to work out on their gym classes. Furthermore, school have to create agriculture class for students to have strong knowledges in foods. Students can literally be ware of what they eat at their lunch times; they will know vegetables grow in the ground and how foods are really fresh. Therefore, schools must provide farming class as in Berkeley; students have rights to know how foods are important to them. As a result, students could get a lot of benefits for changing school
The Indiana School Breakfast and Lunch Program is a program open to those children who live in a low income household. “National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a Federal entitlement program open to public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. Lunch is available to all children at participating schools, and the meals must meet specific nutritional requirements to receive Federal funds (Indiana Department of Education, 2013). This Program is open to those who reside in Indiana and who are a parent or guardian of a child who in school, and does not continue beyond high school. This program has requirements that deal with the level of household income. The household income requirements deal with the household income before taxes have been taken out. If there is a household of one person, they cannot make more than $21,257; a person in a two person household cannot make more than $28,694. This scale continues all the way to that a household of eight cannot make more than $73,316 (Indiana Department of Education, 2013).
National School Lunch Program (NSLP). (n.d.). Food and Nutrition Service. Retrieved November 4, 2013, from http://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp/national-school-lunch-program
We all remember that day when President Obama took office, and our school lunches changed forever. First Lady Michelle Obama, felt that too many American kids are overweight, so she thought she needed to make our school lunches healthier, with more fruits and vegetables. One of the major changes she made was how many calories the school cooks were able to give the kids. The new requirements are as follows: up to 650 for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, 700 for sixth through eighth graders and 850 for high scholars. These numbers are consistent with the Mayo Clinic’s recommendations ( Kuczynski-Brown). The main goal of cutting calories and taking away junk food, was to insure that kids are getting served a healthy lunch. At each lunch, schools must still provide a cup of fruit, a cup of vegetables, two servings of grains, two ounces of dairy, and a cup of fluid milk, so that students can get their needed vitamins and nutrients (Anonymous) . They are also wanting more local farmers to be involved, and give more of the food they grow to the school. At the high school I went to, we built a green house, and planted a garden to give us some local grown food. It was part of our Ag Science class. More and more schools are starting to do the same thing. The stats of overweight kids is really high. The guidelines are as follows:
Food insecurity is an issue faced by millions of Americans every day, and the biggest group affected by this is working families with children. Food insecurity is so big that the United States government has now recognized it and provided a definition for it. The United States government has defined food insecurity as “a household level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food” (USDA.gov). Food banks and anti-hunger advocates agree that some of the causes of food insecurity are stagnant wages, increase in housing costs, unemployment, and inflation of the cost of food. These factors have caused food banks to see a change in the groups of people needing assistance. Doug O’Brien, director of public policy and research at Chicago-based Second Harvest says “’we’ve seen a real shift in who we serve. A decade ago, it was almost always homeless, single men and chronic substance abusers. Now we have children and working families at soup kitchens’” (Koch). These families that are feeling the effects of food insecurity will not be only ones affected by it, but all of America. Studies have shown that there is a link between food security, performance in the classroom, and obesity. If this issue is not faced head on, America will have a generation of children not fully prepared for the workforce and high health insurance rates due to obesity health issues.
What is somewhat alarming is that about half the hungry children in Solano County are in families who are 185 percent of the poverty line.This means that parents of these children earn too much money to qualify for most federal nutrition programs, including the school lunch program.Even as the demand for charitable food help increases, federal food programs are failing to serve eligible, hungry families. Bureaucratic hassles and the stigma of receiving assistance prevent people from getting the help they need. Federal food programs—if fully utilized—are essential for fighting hunger in Solano
“Participation in government programs is dynamic,” said Shelly Irving from the United States Census Bureau. The biggest participant categories are children under the age of eighteen, different ethnicities and genders, non-high school graduates, and the unemployed. Children under the age of eighteen are more likely to participate in means tested programs than any other age group, and 39.2% of children receive some type of government benefit. At 41.6%, the black population in America is the most likely to partake in programs in any average month. The black population is followed by Hispanics, Asians, and non-Hispanic whites. Families with a female householder have the highest rate of participation in any given month, 50%, compared to married couple and male householder families. Those who graduate high school are less likely to need government benefits. Out of all non-high school graduates, 37.3% rely on at least one form of assistance. Financial aid is also given to 33.5% of the unemployed, 17.6% of half time workers, and 6.7% of full time workers (United States Census
“More than a third of the county's children are overweight or obese.”(Gustin, 1). As shocking as this is, it's true. One of the big reasons that children and teens are overweight is because of the foods that they eat. They are fed these fattening and unhealthy foods by the school system. Their futures can be changed if we change our choices. Having more nutritious lunches can have a positive impact on the health of American teens.
The bill that reauthorizes these projects is regularly alluded to by shorthand as the child nourishment reauthorization bill. This specific bill reauthorizes tyke sustenance programs for a long time and incorporates 4.5 billion dollars in new subsidizing for these projects more than ten years. Huge numbers of the projects highlighted in the Act don't have a particular lapse date, yet Congress is occasionally needed to survey and reauthorize subsidizing. This reauthorization exhibits a critical chance to fortify projects to address all the more viably the needs of our country's children and youthful grown-ups. The Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act will help bring childhood hunger to a stop. It will do this by widening universal meal service through eligibility of the community, expanding after school meals for under privileged students, and by connecting low-income children, that are eligible, with school meals through widening direct certification. By releasing the Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act, the United States is taking a huge step toward ending childhood hunger, combating the country’s obesity epidemic, and generally improve nutrition
According to Dolgoff and Feldstein (2003), “the needs and goals of the Food Stamp Program are to alleviate hunger and malnutrition by enabling low-income households to buy a nutritious adequate diet” (p. 132). The program also improved the market for local merchants to produce food for eligible low-income households and other agencies such as the School Lunch Program which safeguard the health and wel...
States could require schools to serve healthier and more affordable meals than they currently are. They could have meals that all had the recommended amounts of grains, fruits, vegetables and protein for children. They could also ensure that it would be cheap for students to eat wh...
Lunch is one of the most important meals of the day and is consumed mostly in school cafeterias for children and adolescence. Wholesome lunches are vital in maintaining a healthy metabolism and give children energy for the rest of the school day. Children are advised to eat healthily but do not always do so because the choices of tastier, fatty foods offered in school cafeterias. The National School Lunch Program, NSLP, which is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools set nutritious guidelines for lunches served in school cafeterias (USDA). However, school campuses still offer foods high in fat as well as selling candy, chips, and soda in their vending machines, as well as their school shops. In order
Students learn and do their best when they are hungry, and uncomfortable! That makes perfect sense right? If you’re like most Americans, this may be one of the most ridiculous statements you have ever heard. I know I have never done anything better hungry. Many students sit through their lunch time at school because they have no food to eat because they don’t have the money to afford it, or they are not able to bring food from home for various reasons. This is why many schools have free and reduced lunch programs. But not everybody can apply for these programs; even middle class families in today’s economy sometimes can’t give their child cash every day. Times are tough, and every family is different. These are good programs, but they are not good enough. One child missing a meal, and going hungry is too many in my book. That’s why I think it should be at least a state law in North Carolina, if not a federal law, that offers free lunch in all public schools for all students, regardless of income. This way it’s simple, cost effective and easy, and nobody will be singled out, or go hungry if they do not bring their lunch from home.