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US Department of Agriculture, 2009
This paper provides an update on all the new products and projects that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has been working on, in its effort to help schools meet the nutritional needs of the students and to help in the President's challenge to End Childhood Hunger by 2015. This issue includes: (1) Back to…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Hunger, Food Service, Child Health
Kramer, John – 1972
The two basic family feeding programs are food stamps and commodity distribution. The current food stamp program provides the poor with spending power enough to purchase at the level of the Department of Agriculture's Economy Food Plan. The dollar equivalent of this plan is 112 dollars a month for a family of four. This amounts to an average per…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Budgets, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1972
Contents of this booklet include: (1) Chronology of the School Lunch Issue: Events Preceding the School Lunch Act of 1946, the 1946 School Lunch Act, "The Needy Go Unnoticed: 1946-1962,""Sorry, No Money: 1962-1965"; (2) "Their Daily Bread"--A Step Toward Action; (3) Congress Takes Action: The Vanik Program--A First…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Resources, Federal Programs, Food Standards
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1971
Contents of these hearings include the statement and testimony of the following witnesses: (1) Alan Young, Research Administrator, Research and Development Division, A. H. Robins Co.; Chairman, Board of Directors, Vitamin Information Bureau; (2) Dr. Joseph M. White, Nutritional and Medical Consultant, Miles Laboratories; (3) Dr. George Briggs,…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Food Service
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1971
Testimony was presented at these hearings by the following witnesses: Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota; Dr. John N. Perryman, executive director, American School Food Service Association; B.P. Taylor, superintendent of Schools, San Diego Independent School District, San Diego, Texas; Dr. Jean Mayer, special consultant to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Resources, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Hunger. – 1986
The Domestic Task Force of the House Select Committee on Hunger met to hear testimony on women and hunger in Appalachia and on food assistance programs and legislation, including H.R. 2100, the 1985 farm bill. Introductory remarks by task force members outline the bill's food assistance provisions, which include increased funding for food stamp…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Community Programs, Economic Factors, Eligibility