Food assistance programs, particularly the Food Stamp Program, increase food spending and household income. In 2004, adding food stamp benefits to recipients’ incomes raised 9 percent of recipients out of poverty. Nutritional effects of food assistance programs are uncertain.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the major purchaser of infant formula in the United States. To reduce the cost of infant formula to WIC, Federal law requires that WIC State agencies operate a costcontainment system for the purchase of infant...

The validity of the assumptions underlying the 21-Meal-Nutritionally-EquivalentPerson (21-MNEP), an adjustment procedure employed In nutritional analyses of U S Department of Agriculture food consumption survey data, IS examined Some assumptions are inconsistent With actual nutrient Intake data...