Where food stamps help the most

Peter Monaghan

A glance at the August issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics: Where food stamps help the most

Food stamps reduce by only a little the number of children who live in poverty, but the government aid program has a marked effect on the depth and severity of poverty and child poverty, write Dean Jolliffe, an economist at the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture; Craig Gundersen, an associate professor of human development and