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by gedy on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:34PM
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It seems to have changed in past decades. When I was in school in 70s/80s, everyone brought their lunch. And we weren't in a well-off area or anything.
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As a sibling comment noted, the National School Lunch Program started in 1946. [1]
The School Breakfast Program started in the 1960s/70s. [2]
More recently, in 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was passed which enabled the Community Eligibility Provision which lets low income area schools offer free food to all kids without individual application/qualification. [3][4]
Various schools I went to in the 90s/00s had some kids bringing their lunch, some kids paying the school for lunch, and some getting free lunch (because they were poor enough to qualify).
[1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp
[2] https://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/factsheet
[3] https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2014/05/...