Their bill would offer free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to every student in America, regardless of income, eliminate school meal debt, and incentivize the use of locally grown food in schools.
I will support legislation to provide free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to every student regardless of income.
Occurrences
Evidence
USDA says the National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program that provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.
USDA says the School Breakfast Program reimburses states to operate nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions.
Assessments
The federal meal programs cited remain reimbursement-based and means-tested/administratively limited rather than a universal free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack benefit for every student. There is no evidence here that John B. Larson enacted or materially advanced legislation that produced the promised universal outcome, so the promise was not fulfilled.