{"id":1895,"date":"2008-09-16T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:20","slug":"us-school-lunch-program-in-an-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"US School Lunch Program in an Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average cost to prepare a school lunch has increased 10% since the 2007-2008 school year. The average cost rose from $2.63 to $2.90 for schools to prepare a nutritionally balanced school lunch that meets federal nutrition standards. Over the same timeframe, schools received only a 4.3% increase in the federal reimbursement for each free lunch provided to low income students. More money or lower quality? What would you prefer?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/heats-report-analyzes-gap-school\/story.aspx?guid=%7BEFD6F22F-4A0B-48A1-AA52-7608FC822280%7D&amp;dist=hppr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average cost to prepare a school lunch has increased 10% since the 2007-2008 school year. The average cost rose from $2.63 to $2.90 for schools to prepare a nutritionally balanced school lunch that meets federal nutrition standards. Over the same timeframe, schools received only a 4.3% increase in the federal reimbursement for each free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5340,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}