Special Issue On The Economics Of Food Assistance Programs
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Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs
Author | : John Karl Scholz |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0299237737 |
These articles cover a wide range of topics related to income volatility and food assistance programs and evaluation of the safety net.
Special Issue on Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs
Author | : John Karl Scholz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Food relief |
ISBN | : |
Food Assistance
Author | : Robert Alan Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Food relief |
ISBN | : |
Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform
Author | : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1999-06-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309184487 |
This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998 workshop convened by the Committee on National Statistics; the Board on Children, Youth, and Families; and the Food and Nutrition Board. The fiscal year 1998 (FY1998) appropriations bill for USDA gave ERS responsibility for all research and evaluation studies on USDA food assistance programs. The bill provided $18 million to fund these studies, an increase from $7 million in FY1997. ERS asked the Committee on National Statistics for assistance in identifying new areas of research and data collection and in further improving the evaluation studies of food assistance programs. By bringing together many who work on evaluation of food assistance programs, policy analysis, survey methods, nutrition, child nutrition and child development, outcome measurement, and state welfare programs, the issues presented and discussed at the workshop provided ERS with information that could be used to develop a framework for their research program.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309263476 |
For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on already limited resources and may compel them to make food choices that are contrary to current nutritional guidance. To help alleviate this problem, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers a number of nutrition assistance programs designed to improve access to healthy foods for low-income individuals and households. The largest of these programs is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, which today serves more than 46 million Americans with a program cost in excess of $75 billion annually. The goals of SNAP include raising the level of nutrition among low-income households and maintaining adequate levels of nutrition by increasing the food purchasing power of low-income families. In response to questions about whether there are different ways to define the adequacy of SNAP allotments consistent with the program goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet, USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a study to examine the feasibility of defining the adequacy of SNAP allotments, specifically: the feasibility of establishing an objective, evidence-based, science-driven definition of the adequacy of SNAP allotments consistent with the program goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet, as well as other relevant dimensions of adequacy; and data and analyses needed to support an evidence-based assessment of the adequacy of SNAP allotments. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy reviews the current evidence, including the peer-reviewed published literature and peer-reviewed government reports. Although not given equal weight with peer-reviewed publications, some non-peer-reviewed publications from nongovernmental organizations and stakeholder groups also were considered because they provided additional insight into the behavioral aspects of participation in nutrition assistance programs. In addition to its evidence review, the committee held a data gathering workshop that tapped a range of expertise relevant to its task.
Economic Conditions Impact on Participation in Nutrition Assistance Programs
Author | : Kenneth Hanson |
Publisher | : Nova Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Food relief |
ISBN | : 9781624175206 |
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 15 domestic nutrition assistance programs. The five largest programs are: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), National School Lunch Program (NSLP), School Breakfast Program (SBP), and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Although SNAP's reputation as one of the Nation's primary counter-cyclical assistance program, expanding during economic downturns and contracting during periods of economic growth, is well established, there has been little analysis of the effect of the economy on other programs. This book examines the relationship between U.S. economic conditions and participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's nutrition assistance programs and how changes in program policy may have influenced this relationship.
RIDGE Project Summaries 2008
Author | : T. Alexander Majchrowicz |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 143792445X |
Summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Innovation and Develop. Grants in Economics Program (RIDGE). Includes summaries of the research findings of projects that were awarded 1-year grants in summer and fall 2007. The projects include analyses of vendor access and fruit and vegetable availability in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); effects of food insecurity on the development of infants and toddlers; admin. data to evaluate the Child and Adult Care Food Program in family child care homes; the economics of the Thrifty Food Plan; and food stamp use among the elderly. Several of the projects focus on immigrants, Native Amer., or people living in the rural South.