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Title SNAP matters : how food stamps affect health and well-being / edited by Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in social inequality
Studies in social inequality.
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
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 0 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the social science research necessary to guide policy is still nascent. In SNAP Matters, Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak bring together top scholars to begin asking and answering the questions that matter. For example, what are the antipoverty effects of SNAP? Does SNAP cause obesity? Or does it improve nutrition and health more broadly? To what extent does SNAP work in tandem with other programs, such as school breakfast and lunch? Overall, the volume concludes that SNAP is highly responsive to macroeconomic pressures and is one of the most effective antipoverty programs in the safety net, but the volume also encourages policymakers, students, and researchers to continue examining this major pillar of social assistance in America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.) -- Evaluation
SUBJECT Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.) fast
Subject Food stamps -- United States -- Evaluation
Evaluation
Food stamps -- Evaluation
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bartfeld, Judi, editor
Gundersen, Craig, editor
Smeeding, Timothy M., editor
Ziliak, James Patrick, editor
ISBN 9780804796873
0804796874