SNAP matters : how food stamps affect health and well-being / / edited by Judith Bartfeld [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/830973
• Soggetto topico: Food stamps - United States - Evaluation
• Soggetto non controllato: Food Stamp Program; SNAP; antipoverty; food insecurity; food policy; food security; program evaluation; program impacts; safety net
• Persona (resp. second.): BartfeldJudi; GundersenCraig; SmeedingTimothy M.; ZiliakJames Patrick
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: SNAP matters
• ISBN: 0-8047-9687-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811930703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in social inequality.