free lunch program
Subsidized student meals
A free lunch program is a government or institutional initiative providing meals at no cost to qualifying recipients, typically schoolchildren from low-income families.
The term appears most often in educational contexts: My kids qualify for the free lunch program.
Such programs aim to ensure adequate nutrition doesn't depend on family income.
- schoolPlace of instruction
- school districtGeographic education administrative unit
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- subsidizedOffset by external funding
- Title IFederal education funding program
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- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- School Policyschool reform, school board, school funding, school district, education ministry
welfare philosophy
free lunch programfood insecurity
Uncertain access to adequate meals
welfare cuts · austerity measures · food desert · food stamps
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