The USDA's support of the dairy industry has changed the American diet and welfare state forever.
A controversial new program segregates students in the cafeteria by grade point average and attendance as an incentive to boost achievement.
American school-lunch policy has always been at the mercy of broader ideological trends, from patriotic militarism to corporate neoliberalism.
Substituting junk foods with fruits and veggies.
As businesses and schools close in Baltimore, some of the most important organizations remain open.
A program to ensure all American children get at least one good meal a day may lie behind their expanding waistlines. Oddly, a breakfast program does not.
Congress is preparing to take up reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, but the recipe for success is far from simple.
Recommendations from a panel of nutrition experts seek to make school lunches healthier, but enacting them is easier said than done.
An experiment in subsidizing school lunches to use locally raised commodities pays off both in the cafeteria and in the regional economy, one study finds.