-
Idaho Senate Republicans shot down the state’s welfare budget Thursday morning, saying taxpayers should not cover extra food benefits for children from low-income families during the summer months.
-
This spring, the Boise School District says it will try to find a way to pay for meals for all its students.
-
Unpaid meal balances held in the state’s largest district eclipsed $100,000 last school year. So far this year, the district is on pace for double that amount.
-
USDA raises income requirements for free and reduced school lunch programs to keep up with inflationThe new US Department of Agriculture income limits for free and reduced school lunches have been raised to reflect inflation.
-
Idaho is walking away from millions of dollars in federal funding that would have gone to feeding children from low-income families this summer.
-
Starting next school year, Idaho parents will need to once again apply for their children to receive free or reduced cost lunches.
-
So many children in Idaho deal with food insecurity on a daily basis. During a regular school year, kids often have access to food through their schools.…
-
As adults, we know how eating unhealthy makes us feel compared to healthier options. Sugar crashes, impacted sleep patterns, decreased focus at work are…
-
Six-year-old Amiah Van Hill first learned about lunch debt when her mom read her a news story about a Seattle man who paid overdue bills accrued by the…
-
Even in a state with high poverty rates, Nampa is a high-poverty district.In 2014-15, 64 percent of Nampa’s 14,892 students qualified for free or…