About half of the group's $ 10 million operating
budget comes from food industry members, including membership fees and sponsorship opportunities, according to a review of public tax filings.
Not exact matches
That estimate
comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family
Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing,
food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.
Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight
budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your
food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students
came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far
from the norm, and if the
food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk
food and fast
food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips
from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?
«We believe that Swaziland neither needs the tons of
food aid
coming from western and eastern countries, nor complicated expensive strategies beyond the
budget of the country to solve low
food productivity,» Shongwe and Mahlalela state in their Google Science Fair entry.
Funding
comes from our Community Action
budget, with the non-perishable
food items for the hampers being donated by all parts of our School community.
For instance, my
budget travel to Hong Kong (spent on cheap airflights that had two stop at two countries), street
food, a hostel with shared backpackers that
came back rowdy and drunk, a shared bathroom for 10 people, and walking
from location to location was fun, full of misadventures and memorable.
When a day of adventure (or idleness)
comes to a close and travelers» thoughts turn to
food, Playa del Carmen offers a wide range of culinary delights steeped in the tradition of world - renowned Mexican cuisine,
from fine dining to simpler fare for the more
budget conscious traveler.
The FDA's
food safety
budget is going to increase in 2013 by $ 253 million — $ 220 million of which would
come from industry fees.