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Progress Toward Eliminating Hunger in America

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  • Boehm, William T.
  • Nelson, Paul E.
  • Longen, Kathryn A.

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Food assistance funds in the United States have generally gone to areas most in need. Assistance in the most needy U.S. counties averaged $21.98 per person in 1967. By 1976, it had increased to $153.91. Corresponding figures for the least needy counties were $2.04 in 1967 and $26.35 in 1976. Food assistance payments accounted for almost 18 percent of each real dollar increase in per capita retail food sales in the neediest counties. Additional food spending was influenced more by increases in food assistance payments than by increases in earned income.

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  • Boehm, William T. & Nelson, Paul E. & Longen, Kathryn A., 1980. "Progress Toward Eliminating Hunger in America," Agricultural Economic Reports 307877, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307877
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307877
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    1. Nelson, Paul E., Jr. & Perrin, John, 1976. "Economic Effects of the U.S. Food Stamp Program: Calendar Year 1972 and Fiscal Year 1974," Agricultural Economic Reports 307577, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
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    1. Boehm, William T., 1981. "Agricultural Policy: Some Hard Choices Ahead," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, July.
    2. Lustig, Nora, 1985. "Medidas directas e indirectas para asegurar el acceso a los suministros alimentarios," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 34513, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).

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