This report is based on the March Current Population Survey and presents national participation rates for the Food Stamp Program (FSP) for fiscal year 2005. Of the 38 million individuals who were eligible for benefits in an average month in 2005, 25 million participated. The FSP served about 65...

For each state, presents estimates that measure the need for the Food Stamp Program and the program's effectiveness in reaching its target population in each of the three years from 1998 to 2000. The estimates were derived using empirical Bayes shrinkage estimation methods, which are described...

The Food Stamp program is the largest of the domestic food and nutrition assistance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service. During fiscal year 2007, the program served 26 million people in an average month at a total annual cost of over $30...

This new policy brief looks at whether food stamps are getting to the people who need them, noting wide variation from state to state.

This new policy brief looks at whether food stamps are getting to the people who need them, noting wide variation from state to state.

Food stamp participation rates vary substantially from state to state. This report looks at the two factors most likely to cause this variation—the characteristics of those eligible to receive food stamps, as well as the economic and policy conditions, in each state. The authors found...

Focuses on trends before and after welfare reform, and through the economic expansion of the 1990s, as well as trends for different subgroups and the eligible population as a whole. Notes that the number of participants fell by 9 million, or 35 percent, from September 1994 to September 1999....