In recent years, concerns have grown about the integrity of the system for establishing eligibility for free and reduced-price meals in school lunch programs. This document summarizes preliminary findings from an evaluation of pilot projects testing two new approaches to address this issue.

This article, the sixth in a series of monographs for the journal on research design and analysis, discusses statistical concepts related to the measurement of nutrition-related characteristics and outcomes, including validity, reliability, and diagnostic tests. The paper is designed to help...

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Schools are ideal settings for implementing programs to prevent and control childhood obesity. The authors review the evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions; offer suggestions for improvements based on the existing evidence, findings from related research, and...

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....

This report finds that the typical Food Stamp client is quite satisfied with services, although misperceptions about eligibility deter many eligible households from participating, and costs to comply with program requirements are significant. Call the Food and Nutrition Service at 703-305-2133...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, helps low-income individuals purchase food so that they can obtain a nutritious diet. Ability to reach the target population is an important measure of SNAP's performance. Of the 39 million people...