At a cost of $2 billion over the next three years, the legislation would bolster the food stamps, school breakfasts and other programs.
Only one school breakfast is eaten for every five lunches.
The District offers a free school breakfast and free or reduced price lunch to low income children.
But participation in school breakfast is much lower than in lunch.
Recently, there has been a push to privatize the school breakfast and lunch programs because of rising costs.
The District offers a free school breakfast to low income children.
We need to find a common-sense way to help schools prepare these veggies as part of a healthy school breakfast or lunch.
Most of the almost six million children who eat school breakfasts receive either free or reduced-price meals.
It's been kind of hard to eat the school breakfast ever since.
Administrators warn that it will cause cuts in school breakfasts and shelter for the poor.