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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Image Gallery

General Overview of Programs

Key provisions: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

USDA food assistance and nutrition programs, costs and participation, fiscal 2007

USDA expenditures on food assistance programs, fiscal 1980-2007

Child Nutrition Programs (other than WIC)

Meals served in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, fiscal 1980-2006

Certification status of average daily school lunch participants, fiscal 1969-2006

Certification status of average daily school breakfast participants, fiscal 1969-2006

Average daily attendance in CACFP child care homes and centers, fiscal 1989-2006

Meals served in CACFP child care homes and centers, fiscal 1989-2006

Summer Food Service Program distribution sites and average daily attendance in July, 1989-2006

Food Stamp Program

Food stamp participants, people in poverty, and unemployed people, 1980-2007

Average monthly food stamp benefits per person, fiscal 1980-2007

Distribution of food stamp participants by age, 2006

Number of food stamp households with earnings and welfare benefits, fiscal 1989-2006

Number of food stamp households with children or with elderly or disabled members, fiscal 1989-2006

Share of food stamp households with children or with elderly or disabled members, fiscal 1989-2006

Food stamp participants and eligible people, fiscal 1999-2006

Food stamp participation rate, fiscal 2000-2006

Reduction in child poverty from food stamps is greatest among the poorest

WIC

Average monthly participation in WIC, fiscal 1980-2007

Children 1-4 years old account for nearly half of WIC participants, April 2006

Hispanics make up the largest percentage of WIC participants (41 percent)

 

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Updated date: August 12, 2008