Feeding the Crisis : Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net / Maggie Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, Maggie, Author.

Series:

California studies in food and culture ; 71.

California Studies in Food and Culture ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food relief--New York (State)--New York.

Food relief.

Food relief--Case studies--21st century.

Food relief--Government policy--United States.

Food security--New York (State)--New York.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Feeding the Crisis

2. Care and Abandonment in the Food Safety Net

3. The Carrot and the Stick

4. Men, Food Assistance, and Caring Labor

5. Free to Serve? Emergency Food and Volunteer Labor

6. No Free Lunch: The Limits of Food Assistance as a Public Health Intervention

7. Ending Hunger, Addressing the Crisis

Postscript: The Right to Food in the Trump Era

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Dickinson, Maggie. Feeding the crisis

ISBN:

9780520973770

0520973771

OCLC:

1120695608