{"id":7371,"date":"2023-05-19T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2023-05-18T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:56:53","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-and-adolescents-aged-5-17-years-who-received-free-or-reduced-cost-meals-at-school-during-the-previous-12-months-by-race-and-hispanic-ethnicity-and-family-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/05\/19\/7371\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged 5\u201317 Years Who Received Free or Reduced-Cost Meals at School During the Previous 12 Months, by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity and Family Income \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7220a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7220a6-F.gif?_=34729\" width=\"463\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 51.6% of all U.S. children and adolescents aged 5\u201317 years received free or reduced-cost meals at school during the previous 12 months; NH Black or African American (66.2%) and Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) (64.4%) children and adolescents were more likely to receive free or reduced-cost meals at school than were NH White (42.7%) children and adolescents, with NH Asian (30.9%) children and adolescents having the lowest percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The same pattern was observed for children and adolescents in families with income \u2265185% of the FPL, but the observed difference in receiving free or reduced-cost meals between Hispanic and NH White children and adolescents was not significant for the lower-income group.<\/p>\n<p>Children and adolescents in families with incomes &lt;185% of the FPL were more likely to receive free or reduced-cost meals compared with children and adolescents in families with incomes \u2265185% of the FPL (75.9% versus 38.7%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7220a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7220a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 51.6% of all U.S. children and adolescents aged 5\u201317 years received free or reduced-cost meals at school during the previous 12 months; NH Black or African American (66.2%) and Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) (64.4%) children and adolescents were more likely to receive free or reduced-cost meals at school than were NH White (42.7%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53770,14289,53746,53752,53747],"tags":[64043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}