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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Trump administration guts Obama’s school lunch program

    Pizza, mac and cheese, and chocolate milk are back in school lunches. The Trump administration is rolling back President Obama’s healthy lunch program. Nutritionists may be shuddering, but the dairy industry is happy.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jan 31, 2019 • 1 min read

    Pizza, mac and cheese, and chocolate milk are back in school lunches. The Trump administration is rolling back President Obama’s healthy lunch program. Nutritionists may be shuddering, but the dairy industry is happy.

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    3 of 5
    A pay-to-play scandal at LA City Hall?
    1. 0:00Federal Judge overseeing PG&E blasts the utility for recent wildfires
    2. 7:02Garcetti’s former deputy solicited donations from big real estate developers, emails show
    3. 15:16Trump administration guts Obama’s school lunch programYou’re reading this
    4. 28:09In ‘Arctic,’ two lonely people survive a brutal world
    5. 41:26The unpaid contributors behind Buzzfeed’s viral quizzes
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