During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress made meals free for public and nonprofit private schools participating in the National School Lunch Program. Although that provision ended, healthy eating researchers at DGHI says all states should continue providing free meals because students, families and school districts benefitted from the decision. In this Quick Take video, Lindsey Miller, a senior research analyst with Healthy Eating Research, discusses how the pandemic-era measure allowed all K-12 students to keep their minds on academics, and not their next meal.

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