New Research on Food Stamps and Food Insecurity
Posted by on November 16, 2009
Does SNAP Decrease Food Insecurity? Untangling the Self-Selection Effect
A new report from the Economic Research Service of USDA, “Does SNAP Decrease Food Insecurity?” analyzes the effect of self-selection in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as Food Stamps). Since many people often enroll in SNAP when they have very low food security, it is often difficult to determine long-term effectiveness of the program. This study shows that SNAP helps to reduce very low food security among one-third of those surveyed. It was unable to determine the role SNAP plays in long-term amelioration of food security. In other words, SNAP is helping those in the most dire of straights to purchase food but the role the program is playing to help lift people out of food insecurity in the long-term is unclear.
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