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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Stamp Act"”.
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Got Silk?: Buying, Selling, and Advertising British Luxury Imports During the Stamp Act Crisis
Despite the amount of scholarship on the Stamp Act Crisis, no study has used advertisements as a main source. This study attempts to show that a valuable, objective source has been overlooked, through the quantitative analysis of 5,810 advertisements before, during and after the Stamp Act Crisis …
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"Too Poor to Eat": A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996
… 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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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 …