Chapter 6 Visual: School Lunch Act
Young girl praying before eating a healthy school lunch (c. 1936). President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act into law in 1946 to provide healthy lunches for low-income children and to help American farmers sell surplus crops. This photo of comes from an archive of photos recording (and championing) those efforts. Is subsidizing school lunch and breakfast effective public policy today?
Monsignor Ivan Illich Speech
—“To Hell with Good Intentions”