The New Deal's Three Square Meals

 
Above: A WPA poster promoting nutritious meals, ca. 1941-1943. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Above: Children eating a hot lunch at a Farm Security Administration migratory labor camp in Florida. The New Deal provided food to the less fortunate during the 1930s, not only in migratory camps, but also through the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, WPA lunch programs, three square meals in the CCC, and more. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott (part of a larger photograph), Farm Security Administration, provided courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.