Saied Toossi
- Former ERS Staff
By this author:
- County Characteristics Associated With Receipt of Food Boxes Through the Farmers to Families Food Box Program
- U.S. Agricultural Policy Review, 2023
- The National School Lunch Program: Background, Trends, and Issues, 2024 Edition
- The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report
- The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Background, Trends, and Economic Issues, 2024 Edition
- School Food Authorities Work With State and Federal Agencies To Implement the National School Lunch Program
- USDA’s Temporary Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) Program Issued $70.9 Billion in Benefits From 2020 to 2023
- State Universal Free School Meal Policies Reduced Food Insufficiency Among Children in the 2022–2023 School Year
- One-Third of Households With Children Paying for School Meals Reported That Doing So Contributed to Financial Hardship
- U.S. Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs Continued To Respond to Economic and Public Health Conditions in Fiscal Year 2022
- Fewer school food authorities experienced a deficit during the pandemic compared with the periods before and after.
- USDA’s National School Lunch Program is administered at Federal, State, and local levels.
- School food authorities must balance costs of producing school meals and revenues from several sources.
- USDA’s National School Lunch Program served about 241 billion lunches from fiscal years 1969 through 2023
- National School Lunch Program lunches served and percent free or reduced-price, fiscal years 1971–2023