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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Food Stamps"”.
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"Too Poor to Eat": A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996
Signed on August 31, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s Food Stamp Act intended to deal with farmer surplus and provide a more nutritious diet for all Americans. Run by the United States Department of Agriculture, and operated as an agriculture program, food stamps remained separated from Johnson’s War on …
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Incentives and Barriers to Participation in Community Nutrition Education Programs for Recipients of Food Stamps and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
… of concern in this study are the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and the Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) program. This qualitative study sought to hear the voices of the women so that nutrition programs can be made more successful in reaching this population. …
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African-American Women and Welfare: A Qualitative Study of African-American Women Receiving Public Assistance
… the labels and stigmas (i.e., welfare checks, food stamps, and medical cards) associated with receiving public assistance were examined. Research findings indicate that there is stress associated with receiving public assistance, and the stigmas associated with public assistance influence …
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Essays on the impact of income on family and child well-being
… I investigate whether families who are receiving food stamp benefits may be disadvantaged compared to higher income families due to the fact that those families who receive food stamps necessarily incur a time cost of food preparation when using food stamps to purchase food.
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Essays on Quantitative Marketing and Empirical Industrial Organization
… in the context of SNAP (commonly known as the Food Stamps Program), with implications to the optimal design of consumer subsidies. In the second essay, I empirically examine how supply-side heterogeneity on a crowd-based platform moderates policy outcomes of platform initiatives.</p>
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APPLYING THE THEORY OF DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS TO UNDERSTAND ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AT MID-WEST FARMERS MARKETS
… Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously ‘food stamps’), is the nation’s largest federal entitlement nutritional assistance program which assists individuals and households living below the federal poverty level in order to reduce the amount of money they spend on food. With the conversion …
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The Federal food stamp and related in-kind commodity distributions: economic history and evaluation in a public choice perspective
The food stamp and commodity distribution programs both attempt to provide nutritional aid to the domestic poor. This makes them welfare programs. But they also represent efforts to make use of excess farm production. This means they are agricultural surplus disposal programs. Although both …
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A Nominal Group Process Approach to Identification of Assessment Needs of Multi-Problem Elderly.
… 1976). Government services ranging from food stamps to crime prevention comprise 134 separate Federal programs administered under five executive departments and five independent agencies which come ultimately under control of 49 Congressional committees and sub-committees (Satchell, …
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Food and Nutrition-Related Beliefs, Attitudes, Practices, and Perceived Needs of Food Stamp Recipients in Virginia
… gain insight on the real and perceived needs of food stamp recipients for use in developing nutrition education programs. Six focus group interviews with 26 food stamp recipients were conducted in six Virginia counties. Transcripts of the meetings were analyzed to identify themes prevalent in all …
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A comparison of the energy commitments of selected poverty and non-poverty subjects in a rural Appalachian county
… were receiving Federal assistance in the form of food stamps. Subjects. in the non-poverty group were not receiving food stamps because of ineligibility due to family income.The study had six major hypotheses with a total of 24 sub-hypotheses. Four hypotheses were concerned with energy commitments …
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Are immigrants in Massachusetts accessing welfare? : an exploratory study of families in Boston and the Merrimack Valley
… immigrants had low rates of health benefits, food stamps, and cash aid usage. However, families headed by permanent residents and temporary visa holders also had low rates of welfare usage. Proposed reasons for these low rates of public benefits usage include linguistic barriers, fears of …
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Housing Challenges of Asian and Pacific Island Elders in the United States from 1995 to 2007
… thus housing challenges, included qualifying for Food Stamps, education, family income, Census region, household size, housing quality, structure size, and neighborhood rating. Other significant findings included the impact of government assistance, geographical location and household size by …
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The relationship between caregiving stress and child well-being among informal and formal kinship care families
… public benefits (e.g., public assistance, food stamps), compared to formal kinship families. (2) Kinship caregiver caregiving stress was not significantly related to child health, but was found to be negatively associated with behavioral outcomes of both younger (aged 6-11) and older …
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Three Essays on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
… and Chronic Poverty in the US: The Role of the Food Stamp Program" examines the unique and common determinants of short-term intra-annual transient poverty and chronic poverty, as well as the differential response of each state of poverty to Food Stamp Program (FSP) use. The study employs …
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Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs
… to state and local officials administering food assistance programs for improving children’s utilization of services, nutritional intake, and food security. More specifically, this dissertation consists of three chapters pertaining to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the …
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"Movie to Movement: Creating Social Change with the Documentary Film 'Food Stamped'"
… linking obesity to lower incomes. Governmental food and farm policy directly affects the affordability, availability, and accessibility of healthy food in low-income areas. Policy also impacts the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) and nutrition education for SNAP recipients. …