The Food Assistance Landscape—This periodical provides a brief overview of USDA''s domestic food assistance programs. Each issue contains recent program statistics, such as expenditure, participation, and benefit levels, as well as information on related economic and social indicators, such as unemployment rates, income growth, and food price inflation. |
Effects of Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs on Nutrition and Health: Volume 4, Executive Summary of the Literature Review—This report reviews published research on the impact of the Food Stamp Program and other USDA assistance programs on participants' nutrition and health outcomes such as food expenditures, household nutrient availability, dietary intake, food security, birth outcomes, breastfeeding behaviors, immunization rates, and use and cost of health care services. |