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Everyone wants to fix it, nobody knows how.

With class cancelled due to coronavirus, public schools are inventing meal-delivery operations on the fly

03.10.2020

Jessica Fu

California bans school “lunch-shaming”

10.14.2019

by Jesse Hirsch

Should we say goodbye to the school lunch milk carton?

06.17.2019

by Brendan Seibel

Trump administration claimed lunch reforms weren’t working. New research says otherwise.

05.02.2019

by H. Claire Brown + The Counter

Countless American families are saddled with student lunch debt. Many won’t be able to pay it off.

04.22.2019

by Jessica Fu

How an outdated law is leaving millions of low-income college students hungry

01.10.2019

by Jessica Fu

As student lunch debt skyrockets, little is known about its real cost

01.08.2019

by Jessica Fu

The New Food Economy goes to school

11.26.2018

by Hillary Bonhomme + Jessica Fu

30 million children rely on free school lunch. Where do they eat when school’s out?

07.03.2018

by Jessica Fu + Jimin Kang

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