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University aims to help food insecure students

 May 15, 2015

U.C. Berkeley’s six-year holistic nutrition plan includes a food pantry, emergency funds and loans, help creating a spending plan, tips on eating for $5 a day and a donation program for any student’s unused dining hall meal points.

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USDA to require safety labels for tenderized beef

By Bianca N. Herron on May 15, 2015

Foodservice facilities will now have more information about the products they are buying, as well as cooking instructions to safely prepare them.

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Facebook raises minimum pay for cafeteria workers to $15 per hour

May 15, 2015

Facebook raised wages for contract workers—such as cafeteria staff and janitors—to a minimum of $15 per hour, amid rising tension over the wage gap between the technology sector’s elite and lower-paid workers.

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Consultant: Schools could save money without Sodexo

May 15, 2015

A Connecticut board of education received an auditor’s report saying it could be cheaper to hire its own facilities management staff rather than continue a contract with Sodexo.

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Democrats blast cafeteria privatization moves

May 14, 2015

The renewed bid by the Republican-controlled Bristol, Connecticut Board of Education to privatize school cafeterias has become a hot political issue.

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Community organizations play a key role in Georgia schools districts’ summer meals

May 14, 2015

Some Georgia school districts plan to partner with community organizations to provide summer meals to students who rely on school lunch. Meals will be served via a “lunch bus” that stops at community centers, local churches and other locations.

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School district seeks free lunch for all

May 14, 2015

Leaders of the Rockford, Illinois, district plan to apply for a new USDA program called Community Eligibility Provision, which would allow the district to feed all of its students for free based on the reimbursement it would receive on qualifying students.

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New York university cafeteria prices are too high

May 14, 2015

New School students say food prices at the University Center’s cafeteria are too high. For some, it means going hungry; others say it may explain why some students resort to stealing.

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Pennsylvania school district considers relaxing approach to students with insufficient meal funds

May 14, 2015

After hearing that a student’s lunch was thrown away because his lunch account didn’t contain enough money to cover the meal, school board members in a Pittsburgh-area district are looking to amend their policy for addressing students who have insufficient meal funds.

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Sodexo and DTZ Inc. say university owes them millions

By Bianca N. Herron on May 14, 2015

The vendors are trying to collect a debt totaling $10.7 million from South Carolina State University.

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