The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in more than 96,000 public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (formerly the Food and Consumer Service) administers the program.
Any child at a participating school may purchase a meal through the National School Lunch Program. Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals. Those between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced-price meals, for which students can be charged no more than 40 cents. (For the period July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001, 130 percent of the poverty level is $22,165 for a family of four; 185 percent is $31,543.)
Source: http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/AboutLunch/faqs.htm
Asian students are excluded from the analysis because they tend to experience less educational and housing segregation that do other people of color. See Gary Orfield and John T. Yun, “Resegregation in American Schools,” (The Civil Rights Project: Harvard University, 1999)
For the purposes of this work, tax capacity for an individual municipality is defined as the revenue that would be forthcoming if that municipality applied metropolitan-wide average tax rates to each of the tax bases actually available to it under state law. The taxes included in the analysis are property, sales and income taxes.[1]
Residential tax capacity is defined as the revenue that would be forthcoming if a municipality applied metropolitan-wide average residential property tax rates to its actual residential property tax base.
Part I Crimes as defined by the FBI include murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, automobile theft, and arson. Violent crimes are considered a subset of Part I Crimes and consist of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Source: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
[1]
The tax capacity measure does not include
fees and charges. Although
these are important local revenue sources in many states (representing about
one-third of local government general revenues nationwide in 1996), how to
measure a place’s capacity to raise revenues in these ways is problematic.