Child Nutrition Programs: Description, History, Issues, and Options |
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185 percent administrative costs administrative expenses agencies bonus commodities Budget Reconciliation Act cents Reduced price changes child care centers child care food Child Nutrition Act child nutrition programs commodity assistance commodity supplemental food Congress Congressional Budget Office CSFP day care homes Department of Agriculture eliminated Federal funds Federal reimbursement fiscal year 1982 Food and Nutrition food service program food stamp program free and reduced-price free or reduced-price gram included indexing infant formula infants July legislation meals served millions of dollars National School Lunch North Dakota nutrition education Nutrition Service Omnibus Budget Reconciliation operate option paid percent of poverty poverty guidelines Public Law Puerto Rico reduced-price lunches reduced-price meals reim reimbursement rates Savings in millions school breakfast program School Lunch Act school lunch program severe need South Carolina special milk program special supplemental food sponsors summer food service supplemental food program tion Total U.S. Department USDA
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Page 7 - Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grantsin-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school-lunch programs.
Page 35 - States in (1) nonprofit schools of high school grade and under, and (2) nonprofit nursery schools, child-care centers, settlement houses, summer camps, and similar nonprofit institutions devoted to the care and training of children. For the purposes of this section "United States" means the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
Page 19 - As a national nutrition and health policy, it is the purpose and intent of the Congress that the school breakfast program be made available in all schools where it is needed to provide adequate nutrition for children in attendance.
Page 7 - ... schools drawing attendance from areas in which poor economic conditions exist, for the purpose of helping such schools to meet the requirement of section 9 of this Act concerning the service of lunches to children unable to pay the full cost of such lunches.
Page 25 - Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York...
Page 81 - Dermatology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Neruology.
Page 41 - Nutritional risk" means (A) detrimental or abnormal nutritional conditions detectable by biochemical or anthropometric measurements, (B) other documented nutritionally related medical conditions, (C) dietary deficiencies that impair or endanger health, (D) conditions that directly affect the nutritional health of a person such as alcoholism or drug abuse, or (E) conditions that predispose persons to inadequate nutritional patterns or nutritionally related medical conditions, including, but not limited...
Page 7 - ... the percentage of free and reduced-price lunches being served in such schools to their pupils; (4) the prevailing price of lunches in such schools as compared with the average prevailing price of lunches served in the State under the National School Lunch Act ; and (5) the need of such schools for additional assistance as reflected by the financial position of the school lunch programs in such schools.
Page 7 - ... education, and for extension education, including the support of public libraries for all the people. It should be all given for the pay of teachers and for the direct and necessary means of teaching. Nothing should be given for grounds and buildings or for permanent equipment. Every appropriation should be apportioned to the states on the basis of the number of persons to be educated and of the use made of it, which last can probably be measured best by the total number of days of attendance....
Page 7 - Secretary to reflect the changes in the series for food away from home of the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.