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SNAP matters : how food stamps affect health and well-being /

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 $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bartfeld, Judi (Editor ), Gundersen, Craig (Editor ), Smeeding, Timothy M. (Editor ), Ziliak, James Patrick (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Colección:Studies in social inequality.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.