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SNAP matters : how food stamps affect health and well-being / edited by Judith Bartfeld [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in social inequality.
- Studies in social inequality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.)--Evaluation.
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.).
- Food stamps--United States--Evaluation.
- Food stamps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly
- Contents:
- Why are so many Americans on food stamps? : the role of the economy, policy, and demographics / James P. Ziliak
- The effect of SNAP on poverty / Laura Tiehen, Dean Jolliffe, and Timothy Smeeding
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and food insecurity / Christian Gregory, Matthew P. Rabbitt, and David C. Ribar
- SNAP and food consumption / Hilary W. Hoynes, Leslie McGranahan, and Diane W. Schanzenbach
- The health and nutrition effects of SNAP : selection into the program and a review of the literature on its effects / Marianne P. Bitler
- SNAP and obesity / Craig Gundersen
- SNAP and the school meal programs / Judith Bartfeld
- Multiple program participation and the SNAP program / Robert A. Moffitt.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804796873
- 0804796874
- OCLC:
- 931999424
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