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How state budget crises are impacting food security on college campuses

 By Lisa Arnett on Dec. 30, 2015

As 2016 gets underway with state budgets still not approved in Illinois and Pennsylvania, state grants for higher education remain in limbo. For some students, that means not having enough money for their meal plan or groceries this past semester.

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Still no action from Congress on Child Nutrition reauthorization

 By Alaina Lancaster on Dec. 16, 2015

An omnibus spending bill skips Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act reauthorization but gives FSDs a small win.

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Congress passes short-term funding bill—with no word on Child Nutrition Act

By FSD Staff on Dec. 11, 2015

The bill will keep the government funded until Wednesday of next week, but it doesn’t include any revisions to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

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Poll: More than 80 percent of N.C. voters support the current federal nutritional standards

By Bianca N. Herron on Dec. 04, 2015

Majority of the respondents support requiring students to take a fruit or vegetable with their meals, according to the poll by a children’s-health advocacy group.

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Pa. budget woes impacting students’ bellies

By FSD Staff on Dec. 04, 2015

A six-month impasse has some college students grumbling in more ways than one.

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Lunch-rules advocate blasts objections as more fiction than fact

By FSD Staff on Nov. 30, 2015

A San Francisco voice on nutrition reform says opponents of the rules in their current state are clouding the issue with out-and-out “myths.”

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Delayed funding halts state’s takehome meal program

By FSD Staff on Nov. 23, 2015

Officials cite North Carolina’s delay in finalizing the state budget as the reason a weekend child-nutrition program hasn’t begun yet.

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State SNA rep, congressional aides discuss NSLP regs

By FSD Staff on Nov. 23, 2015

A group from North Carolina reminded their congressman of the adjustments schools favor.

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New legislation aims to guarantee an afternoon meal period

By Bianca N. Herron on Nov. 23, 2015

The proposal would reimburse applicable foodservices for the third meal.

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14 Colorado districts opt out of NSLP’s grain requirement

By FSD Staff on Nov. 20, 2015

The districts were granted state waivers to the rule.

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