Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food service
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Administrative Failure of Food Stamp Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food service
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Federal Food Programs - 1975: Administrative failure of food stamp program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309263476
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
Income Averaging
Author: United States. Internal Revenue ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income averaging
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and NutritionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Administrative Failure of Food Stamp Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Feeding the Crisis
Author: Maggie DickinsonPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520307674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Although it’s commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the twenty-first century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, which essentially subsidizes low-wage jobs. Excluded populations—such as the unemployed, informally employed workers, and undocumented immigrants—must rely on charity to survive. Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of food assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to regulate people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States.
Code of Federal Regulations
Author: Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1780
Book Description
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2006
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description