All posts tagged "School Lunch"

An "awful" government shutdown repercussion looms for U.S. families and children as a new analysis warns a "hard pill to swallow" has emerged.

School lunches — an important resource for food-insecure families and sometimes the only guaranteed meal for a child during the day — are now at risk due to halted federal funding, The Huffington Post's Nathalie Baptiste reported Friday.

"School districts around the country have put out messages reassuring families that the National School Lunch Program, which provides low-cost or free nutritious meals to schoolchildren, will continue — for now," Baptiste writes....

Oil used to cook a school lunch that led to the deaths of 23 pupils in eastern India contained powerful insecticide, a forensic report said Saturday.

Eight children died and 60 others were taken ill, some hospitalised, on Tuesday after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India, officials said.