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The Richard B. Russell '''National School Lunch Act''' (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 [[United States federal law]] that created the '''National School Lunch Program''' ('''NSLP''') to provide low-cost or free [[School meal|school lunch meals]] to qualified<!-- how do they qualify? --> students through subsidies to schools.<ref name="NSLA-FEP" /> The program was established as a way to prop up [[food prices]] by absorbing farm surpluses, while at the same time providing food to school-age children.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/AboutLunch/ProgramHistory_4.htm |title=The National School Lunch Program Background and Development |access-date=April 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907005942/http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/AboutLunch/ProgramHistory_4.htm |archive-date=September 7, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was named after [[Richard Russell Jr.]], signed into law by President [[Harry S. Truman]] in 1946,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12410|title=Harry S. Truman: Statement by the President Upon Signing the National School Lunch Act.|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu|access-date=2017-09-12}}</ref> and entered the federal government into schools' dietary programs on June 4, 1946.<ref name=NSLA-FEP>{{Cite web | url=https://federaleducationpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/1946-national-school-lunch-act/ | title=National School Lunch Act, 1946| date=February 19, 2011|website=Federal Education Policy History}}</ref> | The Richard B. Russell '''National School Lunch Act''' (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 [[United States federal law]] that created the '''National School Lunch Program''' ('''NSLP''') to provide low-cost or free [[School meal|school lunch meals]] to qualified<!-- how do they qualify? --> students through subsidies to schools.<ref name="NSLA-FEP" /> The program was established as a way to prop up [[food prices]] by absorbing farm surpluses, while at the same time providing food to school-age children.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/AboutLunch/ProgramHistory_4.htm |title=The National School Lunch Program Background and Development |access-date=April 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907005942/http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/AboutLunch/ProgramHistory_4.htm |archive-date=September 7, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was named after [[Richard Russell Jr.]], signed into law by President [[Harry S. Truman]] in 1946,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12410|title=Harry S. Truman: Statement by the President Upon Signing the National School Lunch Act.|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu|access-date=2017-09-12}}</ref> and entered the federal government into schools' dietary programs on June 4, 1946.<ref name=NSLA-FEP>{{Cite web | url=https://federaleducationpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/1946-national-school-lunch-act/ | title=National School Lunch Act, 1946| date=February 19, 2011|website=Federal Education Policy History}}</ref> | ||
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