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Access and Access Barriers to Getting Food Stamps: A Review of the Literature
Progress by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), states, advocates and others in recent years has helped to narrow the gap in participation among eligible people (the participation rate among eligibles rose in 2005 for the fourth straight year—to 65 percent—after seven years of declines). But there is much more work to be done to reach the many people in great need who are eligible for the program but haven’t made it through the often too-complicated obstacle
course to benefit receipt.
This paper reviews the extensive literature on Food Stamp Program administrative practices and their impact on benefit access.
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty, Mark Winne
Like thousands of food activists throughout North America, Mark Winne has worked for 35 years to close the food gap. From organizing breakfast programs for low-income children in Maine to developing innovative national food policies in Washington, DC, Winne has dedicated his professional life and writing to finding local, state, and federal solutions to America’s food disparities. To this end, and to those whose passion for this purpose is no less than his own, he has dedicated his first book “Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.”
Each year more than 238,000 New Mexicans – including 81,000 children and 21,000 Seniors – seek emergency food assistance from New Mexico’s Food Banks and their network of 700 partner agencies across the state according to the new study Faces of Hunger in New Mexico 2005. Compiled by the eight members of the New Mexico Association of Food Banks, including Roadrunner Food Bank, the study presents the results of a survey of 456 agencies and 447 households across the state. It is the most comprehensive study ever done in hunger and is part of the national study Hunger in America 2006 compiled by America’s Second Harvest – the Nation’s Food Bank Network.
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To assess the status of hunger and homelessness in America’s cities during 2007, The U.S. Conference of Mayors surveyed 23 major cities whose mayors are members of its Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness. The survey sought information and estimates from each city on (1) the demand for emergency food assistance, emergency shelter and transitional housing; (2) the capacity to meet that demand; (3) the causes of hunger and homelessness; (4) efforts underway in each city to combat these problems; (5) the economic or social conditions that exacerbate these problems; and (6)
the outlook for 2008.
This year, the Conference of Mayors made several important changes to its Hunger and Homelessness Survey Questionnaire aimed at increasing the quality of the data collected and improving the accuracy of survey results. The revised survey is more rigorous, relying less on open-ended responses and more on data-driven ones
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