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by ghaff 2720 days ago
I don't know the entire history but as a federal program it started in 1946. [1] It's long been sort of a political hot button. As you say, the impetus was (and is) that children from poor or otherwise disadvantaged home environments got at least one full meal at lunchtime.

[1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp/national-school-lunch-program-...