On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver looked into the availability and quality of school lunches in US public school through the National School Lunch Program. Since 1946, the federally assisted program has provided meals to most public school students – over 90% of public schools participate in the program and last year alone, it provided 4.6bn lunches.
“I’m not here tonight to shit on school lunches, because the very fact they happen at all is remarkable,” said Oliver, noting that many school nutrition directors accurately say they are running “the biggest restaurant in town”.
