Food Stamps and Obesity: Ironic Twist or Complex Puzzle?—The Food Stamp Program was designed to provide a nutritional safety net for low-income households while boosting demand for domestic agricultural products. As the major nutrition problems facing the U.S. population have shifted from too little intake to overconsumption and obesity, some have questioned whether food stamps encourage participants to eat too much. |
The Food Assistance Landscape—This periodical provides a brief overview of USDA''s domestic food assistance programs. Each issue contains recent program statistics, such as expenditure, participation, and benefit levels, as well as information on related economic and social indicators, such as unemployment rates, income growth, and food price inflation. |
