Food Security Archives - Rethink Mississippi

Analysis
Healthy food, healthy children, healthy future

Thanks to a new policy, 250 high-poverty Mississippi schools are offering nutritious breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.
By Mississippi Economic Policy Center

August 14, 2015
Analysis
Universal meal program is ending hunger in high-poverty schools (as long as they sign up)

28.7 percent of Mississippi children do not have consistent, dependable access to nutritious food at home. The high-poverty community eligibility provision has extended school meals to thousands more Mississippi students, but hundreds of eligible schools still have not signed up.
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January 5, 2015