Cafeteria Capers
A federal law passed in 1946 as a national security measure
What is National School Lunch Program?
A COVID-era program that helped feed students when schools were closed.
What is the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT)?
Started as a pilot in 1972 and made permanent in 1974.
When did WIC, aka The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, begin?
The current name of the program formerly known as Food Stamps.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
Once considered to be unnecessary to reduce hunger, now these are institutionalized in every state.
What are food banks?
$240 trillion dollars
What is the amount the reconciliation bill under consideration in congress would add to the federal deficit?
The Black Panther Party helped shame the country into making this program nationwide.
What is the School Breakfast Program?
A new state/federal program with a stellar name to help end hunger when school is not in session.
What is Sun Bucks?
People who are pregnant, post-partum, breastfeeding, infants, and children under 5.
Who is the WIC program designed to help if people are eligible?
40 million people.
How many US residents receive SNAP food assistance (now endangered)?
There were around two dozen in 1980 and now over 400 providing food to over 63,000 charities
How have food banks expanded over time?
Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans
Where does most of the money in the reconciliation bill go?
This threatened program makes it easier for millions of kids to get more free school meals.
What is the Community Eligibility Provision?
$120 per summer or $40 per month.
What is the amount of Sun Bucks benefits per student?
Forty percent of US infants.
What is the percentage of US infants receiving WIC benefits?
$6 per person per day.
What is the average daily amount of SNAP benefits?
The federal program that purchases food to distribute to food banks.
What The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TFAP)?
SNAP, Medicaid, and more
What programs would be slashed to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthy?
The federal agency that expanded free school meal eligibility for more schools in 2023—and AFSC helped!
What is the US Department of Agriculture?
Tennessee*, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Indiana*, Iowa*, Idaho, South Dakota, Alaska, Texas, and Wyoming.
What are the states that have so far refused to implement the Sun Bucks program as passed by Congress?
Nutrition risk.
What is the major criteria for WIC elegibility?
$300 billion dollars
By what amount does the House-approved reconciliation bill cut SNAP benefits over 10 years?
Tax write-offs (around $5B in 2024), waste management, public relations, supporting low wages, and maintaining a charity vs rights approach to food.
How do corporations benefit from the charity food system?
A sneaky way to kick low income working people off of SNAP and Medicaid.
What are work reporting requirements?