Argumentative Essay for Food Stamp Reform The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) is supposed to provide benefits to low-income households to help them purchase food. In 2011, the federal government spent seventy eight billion dollars on the program. SNAP benefits are now administered through a convenient debit card called an EBT card. According to the US Department of Labor more than 46.6 Million Americans participated in SNAP in June 2012. SNAP national participation in June 2012 rose to 46,670,373 people, an increase of 173,162 people from May 2012.
This will allow the parents who are not financially able to pay for their child’s lunch every day or send a lunch to school the opportunity of assurance that their child will not miss a meal and obtain a nutritious meal. The community has started a program where donations will be taken year round for students to take home a small sack each Friday. The small sack will also provide healthy food for the child but also is beneficial for families that are unable to maintain food in their homes and a child won’t miss a meal. The Georgia Department of Education School Nutrition Program has created the Georgia Eat Smart. The purpose of the Georgia Eat Smart is to promote good nutrition, physical activity and wellness for k-12 students and their parents.
Food distributed by the National School Lunch Program contains some of the same ingredients in fast food... Yet this is how the government continues to "help" feed millions of American school children. (Heron 11)" I believe that if you receive money from the U.S.D.A. that schools should invest in a kitchen to serve freshly salads, fruits, and vegetables or as a minimum take a step into having a healthier school diet and lunch. If students would have known that fast food ingredients were found in our school lunches.
Food assistance programs were put in place by the government, the school system, public and private non profit organizations, daycares and food pantries (Blau, Abramovitz, 2004, 2007). The most common food program is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also called food stamps (http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/snapmain.htm). Food stamps made its first appearance in 1939, but only survived until the time of war and employment was increased and eliminated this helpful program (Blau, Abramovitz, 2004, 2007). This program was created to helps low-income people and families purchase nutritious food to prevent hunger and promote a healthy eating style (http://www.fns.usda.gov/FSP/). SNAP is funded by the federal government and offered to persons living 130% of the poverty line.
As a nurse to malnutrition patient, I would recommend him/her to have healthy Yoghurt that is 150g per pot and contains 243 Kcals. Moving on, Malnutrition patients should have or given the food timetable chart. This diet chart will help and improve their health. Patients should have timetable of breakfast, lunch, evening snack, Dinner. For Breakfast, I would suggest a patient to have two slice of white bread that has 66Kcal per slice with jam contains 56 Kcal per table spoon.
Regulation: Fresh fruit and vegetable program (FFVP) Agency: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA Action: Proposed rule Deadline for public comment: April 24, 2012 Proposal description: The Food and Nutrition Service is proposing changes to guidelines to National School Lunch Program. This change interests me, as I am a dietician and educating children to make smart food choices, helps the develop healthy eating habits in the future. FFVP increases availability of fresh produce to elementary schools, where at least 50% of students are eligible to receive free or reduced price meals. This regulation would set basic administrative and operational requirements in conformance with Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Program. Comment: I would like to submit my comment on the proposed rule related to changes in National School Lunch Program.
7 Day Nutrition Tracking Chart: Student’s Name: Nastaran Imanian | |Day 1(Friday) |Day 2(Saturday) |Day 3(Sunday) | | |Approximate Time: 8:30 am |App. Time: 12 am |App. Time: 11 am | | |Grains: 0.3 cups Oatmeal Calories:98 |Grains: 1 cup cold cheerios cereal Calories:104 |Sour cream glazed donut Tim Hortons calories: 340 | |Breakfast |Dairy: 1 cup of 2% Milk Calories:122 |Dairy: 1 cup of 2% Milk
Admission to the competition is $10.00. This will be an ALL day event, so we URGE each of you to give your child at least $20.00 in order to eat breakfast & lunch on Saturday and the opportunity to purchase any merchandise being sold at state. We are scheduled to compete in the
ß But, right now 20 million children are currently on the Free and Reduced lunch programs provided by schools. And on average the federal government is paying about 6 dollars a day to feed each on of these kids. (Two meals breakfast and lunch). So lets say each one of these 20 million children are eating these two meals every day all year. So that’s 175 school days times 6 dollars a day.
Welfare Paper According to the poverty guideline of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the poverty line in Texas for a family of four is $23,550 per year. Families below the poverty line are eligible to apply for welfare benefits through Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). The two major welfare benefits that are available though HHSC are SNAP food benefits and Temporary assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The SNAP food benefits, which are also known as food stamps, provide food and nutritional support to qualifying low-income families. Most SNAP benefits last for 6-month period but can also range form a month to 3 years depending on the qualification and need of the family.