States recently learned about the cuts, which will cut funding for the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS) and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools ... approved for free school meals without completing another application.

Without the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, school meal programs in Louisiana could be disrupted, which could lead to difficulties in maintaining current meal programs and ...

"This was a Kansas-based program and we were working with Kansas farmers to procure that food," said Davis. Out of the $1 billion slashed, $660 million funded the Local Food for Schools program ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that helped schools buy food from local farms ... nutrition,” he said. “Without good food, it’s going ...

March 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches, the ...

SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) – The United States Department of Agriculture is making cuts to a program that provides schools and food banks with fresh food from local farms. The USDA cut the $660 ...

Measure, to be considered on first reading, would ban creation of ghost guns and prohibit their sale or transfer without a federal firearms license.

They have multiple programs to help out, not just with the community, but also with local schools ... sometimes its either food or their medicine. So when they come here and they find out that ...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has begun the process of eliminating a US Food and Drug Administration program called GRAS, or “generally recognized as safe,” that critics say ...