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How an outdated law is leaving millions of low-income college students hungry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