Daily and Periodic Report of School Lunch Program documents

Materials were created and distributed to the schools through the Minnesota Work Projects Administration (WPA), formerly the Work Progress Administration, from the Federal Works Agency or United States Work Projects Administration. They appear to be from the Hermantown school near Duluth. United States. Work Projects Administration (Minn.)

The two paragraphs below are from a speech by Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant Administrator, Works Progress Administration titled Hot Lunches for a Million School Children

Educators, health officers and state officials in Minnesota agree that increased. weight, great concentration in the classroom and fewer absences from school are some of the immediate gains resulting to children who are being fed on the WPA school lunch projects. They state that the hot lunch is of particular value to the children of unemployed parents whose food budget has been reduced to a minimum, or below the amount required for proper growth and health protection. For many of the children in Minnesota and elsewhere, the school lunch is not only the best, but sometimes the only adequate meal of the day.

To further this work of overcoming malnutrition and preventing its further progress, certain public tax-supported bodies in Minnesota have sponsored allied projects for which the WPA has supplied the labor. In some instances, milk stations provide mid-morning lunches for the needy; and in several poor districts, where children are known to leave home on almost empty stomachs milk and graham crackers are served at school before the beginning of classes.