More than 280,000 Ohio kids would be impacted by proposed national school meal program cuts
- A congressional committee is considering cuts that could take billions from school breakfast and lunch programs, impacting more than 280,000 students in Ohio alone, and 728 schools in the state, according to data from the Food Research & Action Center.
- The proposed cut would chop $3 billion from school breakfast and lunch programs, reducing eligibility for the Community Eligibility Provision, affecting over 12 million children nationwide, including the more than 280,000 Ohio children.
- The advocacy group Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio stated that the loss from this proposal would impact more Ohio children than there are residents in the city of Toledo, Ohio’s fourth-largest city.
- A 2024 Republican research firm poll indicated that a majority of Ohioans support universal free school breakfast and lunch programs for public schools, as noted by Dr. John Stanford, state director of CDF-Ohio.
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