Almost fifty million people are food insecure in the United States, which makes food
insecurity one of the nation's leading health and nutrition issues. We examine recent …

Abstract The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education (SNAP-Ed) is the
nutrition promotion component of SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. SNAP-Ed assists …

Food insecurity is now recognized as a major health crisis in the United States. This is due to
the size of the problem—more than 42 million persons were food insecure in 2015—as well …

The complexity of the operational concept and definition of food insecurity has complicated
the study of the 'food insecure'and efforts to determine clear policy directions. Previous …

As lockdown and school closure policies were implemented in response to the coronavirus,
the federal government provided funding and relaxed its rules to support emergency food …

We examine trends in employment, earnings and incomes over the last two decades in the
United States, and how the safety net has responded to changing fortunes, including the …

Background Food insecurity is associated with a wide array of negative health outcomes
and higher health care costs but there has been no population-based study of the …

Background: Income volatility is on the rise and presents a growing public health problem.
Because in many epidemiological studies income is measured at a single point in time, the …

The twenty-first century has seen major changes in both the nature of work and the nature of
families in the United States—even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every …

The Food Stamp program is currently one of the largest safety net programs in the United
States and is especially important for families with children. The existing evidence on the …