Left Over: How Corporations and Politicians Are Milking the American School Lunch

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74 percent. That’s how much fewer greenhouse gas emissions schools emit into the environment when they implement sustainable lunch menus–like Meatless Mondays. From servi

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60 to 70 percent of total milk sales. That’s the share of chocolate and flavored milk students buy in school cafeterias each year. Nutrition workers, parents, doctors, an

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$40 billion. That’s how much the “Big Three” food service contractors—Aramark, Sodexo, and Chartwells—earned in the United States in 2019. Many public school meal program

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$40. That's how much one Milwaukee student says she spends each week on snacks instead of eating the food in her public school cafeteria. For decades, school nutrition le

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16.8 pounds of food. That’s how much less food a 10-year-old child gets per week on the lowest rung of government food assistance, compared to a child in a better-funded

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Less than $2. That’s how much the Santa Ana Unified school district can afford to spend on one student’s lunch each day. The $14 billion budget of the National School Lun

Welcome to Left Over Podcast

In this investigative series, award-winning journalist Jessica Terrell reveals the intertwined corporate and political interests that mire the American school lunch syste