Policy Spotlight: Domestic Nutrition Programs

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 23 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 389-405 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As with so many other US agricultural policies, the first domestic nutrition assistance programs were born as part of the New Deal effort to combat the adverse effects of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl on the US farm sector, with surplus foods purchased and distributed to hungry people through a variety of outlets. The National School Lunch program to help feed low-income children was established in 1946, and the Food Stamp Program—now the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP—was established in 1964. Recent legislative efforts have sought to improve the nutritional content of food consumed through these programs.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_23

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