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Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1960-1975

This is one of a series of photographs from Picture Story 217 "New Food Program is First to Feed Pre-School Youngsters", which tells how the U. S. Department of Agriculture is providing food and cash help to needy pre-school children. Children at the Alerding Settlement House in Gary, Indiana are being served a mid-morning snack of do-nuts and milk on November 1, 1968. Funds from the new program will also supply food for their lunches. (Youngsters at day-care centers in Gary, Indiana were the first in the nation to benefit from a new USDA child food service program. Hailed as a "new dimension" in child nutrition, the program provides cash and USDA donated foods to public and private non-profit agencies to help them provide nutritious meals to children in day-care and similar organized activities, and in summer recreation and day camps. Emphasis is on getting food service into activities in low-income areas, and in neighborhoods with high percentages of working mothers.)

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11-1-1968

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Keywords

Child Nutrition, School Feeding, School Lunch, NSLP

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