For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on alread

Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in

The papers in this volume provide much needed focus and in depth coverage of the effect of income-volatility on the participation and design of food-assistance

The lore of the immigrant who comes to the United States to take advantage of our welfare system has a long history in America's collective mythology, but it ha