The more than $1 billion cut hits already strapped schools and food banks.
- Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
Minnesota Gov. and vice presidential contender Tim Walz has championed his state’s free school meals policy.
An expert on food policy explains how the end of COVID-19 waivers will impact children’s access to food, as well as the importance of food banks and pantries.
A food policy expert explains how school lunches changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and what’s wrong with going back to the normal system now.
Behavioral economics, long employed in grocery stores to guide customers to certain products, could be employed by food banks and pantries to encourage healthier choices.
It helped that school food service staff quickly changed their preparation, packaging and distribution methods to feed students who were no longer eating in cafeterias.
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