According to a remarkably one-sided article in The Commercial Appeal,

As part of Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids legislation passed in 2010, the federal government is now in the supper business, budgeting $641 million over 10 years to make sure children in the nation’s ever-growing poor pockets get one more balanced meal a day.

“It’s wonderful,” said Larry Hopson, site coordinator at Shelby Oaks Elementary where about 100 children — prekindergarten to fifth grade — were at long cafeteria tables for their second government-subsidized meal — if not the third — that day.

Curiously, the reporter does not include an opposing viewpoint in her piece – perhaps someone who questions whether the federal government has the responsibility (or money) to fund three school meals a day.  Of course, these brave contrarians would have to be willing to face accusations that they hate children and want them to starve.