Oversight Hearing on Restoring Funding to the Child Nutrition Programs. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session.

Three witnesses gave testimony at this hearing on restoring $150 million in entitlement funding to Federal child nutrition programs. They were Ernest Morial, Mayor of New Orleans, representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Task Force on Joblessness and Hunger; Faith Gravenmier, representing the American School Food Service Association; and Lynn Parker, representing the Food Research and Action Center. All three, besides offering suggestions for using the restored funds in their oral testimony, presented prepared statements for inclusion in the record. Morial also presented, in his oral testimony, omnibus anti-hunger legislation prepared by the Conference of Mayors and, for inclusion in the record, a survey of human services in 1982 and eight case studies of hunger in American cities prepared by the Conference of Mayors. The cities covered in the survey include Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Nashville, New Orleans, Oakland (CA), Rochester, and San Antonio. (CMG)