Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309263476
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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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.
Author: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Author: National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309184487
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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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.
Author: Texas
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Food stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Matthew Gritter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137520922
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in some cases enhanced as a result of its inclusion in the Farm Bill, being characterized as a safety net of last resort and as a program for the deserving poor.
Author: Rachel Bolden-kramer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981983711
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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What to eat when you broke & wanna be healthy? Poverty doesn't have to kill you! This cookbook will help you use food (stamps) to heal! Rachel is a Harvard-educated baby momma leading a revolution for low income, high potential communities to eat BETTER so they can LIVE better. She takes extra special care of her fellow baby mommas so the next generation can have happy and healthy habits passed down to them. Rachel overcame the welfare system with radical nutrition and you can, too!
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition
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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: William L. Hamilton
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Jeffrey M. Berry
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ISBN: 9781978816633
Category : NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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