Discusses effective access to the program by people who are eligible for it, noting that at any given time, only 59 percent of those who were eligible participated in 1998. Furthermore, this number has been declining since the passage of welfare reform legislation in 1996. Although there are...

Summarizes recent work in the food security area and methods used to measure food security; also describes analytic and empirical issues related to analyzing food security data.

Although concern about the quality of children's diets has mounted along with increases in obesity, little is known about the food they purchase in school from a la carte cafeteria sales, vending machines, snack bars, school stores, and other sources. This report describes methods that could be...

This report studies the relationship between food expenditures and dietary outcomes for SNAP participants and other low-income individuals and households.

Examines options to develop and implement a national database for tracking participants in public assistance programs, with an eye toward tracking time limits across state boundaries and identifying those receiving benefits in two or more states at the same time.