The Evolution of the School Lunch

While the National School Lunch Program has been under scrutiny as of late (First Lady Michelle Obama, a champion for healthier meals in schools, recently came under fire when students tweeted their awful looking school lunches under #thanksmichelleobama), and there certainly are issues, I felt it necessary to first introduce my audience to the Herculean job and process of trying to feed so many students in the U.S. on a daily basis. I used data sets to explain how many students are actually being fed per day, how the NSLP is single handedly dealing with a hunger issue in the U.S., and then to explain how funding is appropriated for this federal program. See full website at http://students.washington.edu/asteinem/.

• Abigail Steinem