Infographic of the Week: School Breakfast

23 Dec 2011

On the Friday before Christmas, Food+Tech Connect brings you a graphic from the USDA’s Economic Research Service to help put things into perspective.

In 1989, 3.7 million students received breakfast at school. By 2010, that number had more than tripled to 11.6 million students participating daily. Most of those getting breakfast at school are also in high need; 75 percent of the 1.9 billion breakfasts served were free and 9 percent were provided at reduced price. Spending for the program also increased by 10 percent from 2009 to $2.8 billion.

More information on school breakfast programs, their impact on learning and on children’s nutritional status can be found here.

About the Author

Beth Hoffman has reported on food and agriculture for ten years, airing on NPR, The World, Latino USA, Living on Earth, KUER and KALW , and studied the food system in depth as a fellow and co-lecturer in the Africa Reporting Project at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Hoffman competed a year long documentary project cooking with immigrant women in their homes, has traveled to India, Uganda and Ethiopia to report on rice production and chicken farming, and did a multipart series for KUER on the artistic, cultural and environmental connections we have to food. In addition to spending many hours on-farm in Utah, California and abroad, Hoffman also married into an Iowa farm family and is currently working with her husband to slowly convert the land into a sustainable orchard and hog farm. She currently lives in Albany, California. Hoffman’s previous work can be found on her website at bethaudio.com.

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Infographic of the Week: School Breakfast

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