The average material prices are listed by school year and used by processors participating in the USDA Foods processing program.
This factsheet explains how USDA Foods support the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the school meal pattern requirements to make it easier for schools to prepare healthy meals using local foods.
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USDA Foods further processing allows state distributing agencies (SDA) and recipient agencies (RA) such as school districts to contract with commercial food processors to convert raw and/or bulk USDA Foods into a variety of convenient, ready-to-use end products.
Time line of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to respond to the hunger emergency afflicting American families and the children, to attack the causes of hunger among all Americans, to ensure an adequate diet for low-income people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness because of the shortage of affordable housing, to promote self-sufficiency among food stamp recipients, to assist families affected by adverse economic conditions, to simplify food assistance programs' administration, and for other purposes.
TITLE IX—FOOD AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program
Subtitle B—Commodity Distribution
Subtitle C—Indian Subsistence Farming Demonstration Grant
Subtitle D—Technical Amendments
Hunger Prevention Act of 1988; PL 100-435, 102 Stat. 1645-1677 - Sept. 19, 1988
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 (PL 97-253, 96 Stat. 763-807 - Sept. 8, 1982)
Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981
PL 97-98, 95 Stat. 1213-1358 - Dec. 22, 1981