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Lincoln touts child-nutrition bill

$4.5 billion plan targets food in schools, kids’ obesity

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 4:14 a.m.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln unveiled a bill Wednesday that would add $4.5 billion to federal child-nutrition programs that provide the day’s only meals for some children.

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