Amid persistent child hunger and food insecurity in the United States, lawmakers and advocates on Wednesday stressed the ...

Should all U.S. public school students be able to eat breakfast and lunch at no cost, regardless of their family’s income?

As a social policy, free school meals is hard to beat. Kids do better in school, struggling parents benefit from having to ...

Charities want the government to replicate London's universal approach in the North East.

The SNP decision to scrap plans for universal free school meals for primary school pupils has been blasted as ‘shameful’ by the Children’s Commissioner. Nicola Killean said she had heard ...

New analysis has found that 150,000 children in the South East are living in poverty but do not qualify for free school meals.

The Scottish government is expected to be defeated in a vote to expand free school meals to all primary school pupils. First Minister John Swinney has said he would not be able to fulfil the ...

Federally funded efforts like the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program provide free and reduced-cost ...

For American households, the good news is that inflation rates have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels. Perhaps most ...

Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images How many K-12 students get free meals at school? The National School Lunch Program provides nutritious meals for over 28 million students each day ...