How the Federal School Lunch Program Became a Spicy Political Debate | Retro Report

The federal school lunch program serves nearly five billion meals annually, with benefits for the health and academic performance of the 29 million students who take part. Retro Report traces the transformation of the program from a 1946 initiative addressing malnutrition into an effort caught up in debates about everything from the federal deficit to teenage obesity to government intervention in people’s lives.