Food Assistance: How Strong Is the Safety Net?

Michael LeBlanc, Biing-Hwan Lin and David Smallwood

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2006, 6

Abstract: Food assistance programs, particularly the Food Stamp Program, increase food spending and household income. In 2004, adding food stamp benefits to recipients’ incomes raised 9 percent of recipients out of poverty. Nutritional effects of food assistance programs are uncertain.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.125754

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