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Thread #99746   Message #2007139
Posted By: Dickey
25-Mar-07 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Bobert: "Bring back the funding for breakfast programs"

Looks to me like it didn't go anywhere :

State by State Performance
While the national ratio was 44:100, thirteen states served school breakfast to at least 50 out of every 100 low-income children
eating school lunch:

State....School Breakfast to School Lunch Ratio
Oregon...............55.9
West Virginia........55.7
Kentucky.............55.4
Oklahoma.............54.7
Mississippi..........54.5
South Carolina.......54.1
Texas................53.8
New Mexico...........53.2
Vermont..............53.2
Arkansas.............53.0
Georgia..............52.8
Louisiana............51.2
North Carolina.......50.5

Six states served school breakfast to fewer than one in three low income children eating school lunch:

State School Breakfast to School Lunch Ratio
Connecticut..............33.0
New Hampshire............32.7
Alaska...................32.0
Utah.....................31.0
Illinois.................28.4
Wisconsin................26.5

Five states had double-digit increases in the number of children receiving a free or reduced price breakfast in 2004-2005 over the
year before:

Percent Increase in Number of Low-Income Children Receiving School Breakfast
New Jersey......39.1%
Idaho ..........17.0%
Nevada .........15.6%
Utah............15.5%
Wisconsin.......11.2%
        
By not reaching the 55:100 ratio reached by the best performing states, underperforming states are foregoing significant federal funding. In 2004-2005, the ten states foregoing the most federal funds missed out on a combined $249.4 million and leaving 1.2 million potentially eligible children unserved (almost two-thirds of the national totals):

State        Students Not Served Dollars Foregone
California........315,101......$63,290,662
New York..........206,688......$41,760,346
Illinois..........185,221......$37,795,649
Florida ..........106,923......$21,570,936
Pennsylvania.......97,495......$19,691,487
Ohio ..............74,620......$15,146,602
Michigan...........66,904 .....$13,558,412
Wisconsin..........64,309......$12,881,144
New Jersey ........62,635......$12,623,828
Arizona............55,147......$11,125,387



http://www.frac.org/pdf/SBPscore_sum.pdf