The longstanding national School Breakfast Program is a federally funded program that operates in public and nonprofit private schools, and its impact goes far beyond the cafeteria. In 2022 ...

Link2Feed used USDA data to explore the history and scale of the school breakfast program. The U.S. served a record 2.5 billion meals to kids in 2022.

Link2Feed used USDA data to explore the history and scale of the school breakfast program. The U.S. served a record 2.5 billion meals to kids in 2022. - Photo illustration by Elizabeth Ciano ...

Twenty years later, Kentucky congressman Carl Perkins championed the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, which spurred the pilot of the School Breakfast Program. His original intent was to service rural ...