#Food-assistance

The USDA has released its annual report on Household Food Security in the United States in 2023. The news is not good. What’s especially tragic is the reversal of the pandemic decline in food insecurity. Pandemic income support and higher SNAP benefits did exactly what they were supposed to. 

The USDA has just summarized its accomplishments with respect to food and nutrition assisttance since the pandemic.  It’s an impressive list. The report has loads of enlightening charts.  This one shows the substantial increase in spending on food assistance over the years, and recently. This

How’s this for bad, but not unexpected, news: household food insecurity is up again.  It’s especially up among households with children. And it’s the worst in years. Food insecurity declined during the pandemic because the USDA increased benefits and waived some restrictions to enable

Christopher Bosso.  Why SNAP Works: A Political History—and Defense—of the Food Stamp Program.  University of California Press,  2023.  I did a blurb for this book: Why SNAP Works is a lively, up-to-the-minute account of the history of thie program formerly known as Food Stamps, and contested