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Social Policy Role Of Food Assistance Programs

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  • Storey, James R.

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In fiscal 1977, the Federal Government will spend $9.2 billion on food stamps and child nutrition programs.These benefits represent the bulk of Government's direct efforts to improve nutrition. But viewed more generally, these programs are only a few among many federal mechanisms for transferring income from one group of people to another to improve the recipients I financial status. Food programs account for only 5 percent of all such transfer payments, but food assistance constitutes a higher proportion of benefits (24 percent) directed to low-income groups. Thus, food assistance is a very important element in federal income support.

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  • Storey, James R., 1976. "Social Policy Role Of Food Assistance Programs," 1976 Annual Meeting, August 15-18, State College, Pennsylvania 284004, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea76:284004
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.284004
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    1. Bryant, W. Keith & Bawden, D.L. & Saupe, W.E., 1981. "PART I. The Economics of Rural Poverty," AAEA Monographs, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 337226, january.

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