Michele Ver Ploeg
- Former ERS Staff
By this author:
- Utilizing the USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to Calculate a Household-Level Food Environment Measure
- Super Stores’ Impact on the Availability of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Approved Stores
- Understanding Low-Income and Low-Access Census Tracts Across the Nation: Subnational and Subpopulation Estimates of Access to Healthy Food
- Nutritional Quality of Foods Acquired by Americans: Findings From USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
- The Influence of Food Store Access on Grocery Shopping and Food Spending
- Unemployment Insurance and USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Together Cushioned the Great Recession
- U.S. Shoppers’ Access to Multiple Food Stores Varies by Region
- Variety-Adjusted Food Prices Are Slightly Higher in Census Tracts Where Households Have Limited Access to a Supermarket
- Distance to Grocery Stores and Vehicle Access Influence Food Spending by Low-Income Households at Convenience Stores
- ERS’s Updated Food Access Research Atlas Shows an Increase in Low-Income and Low-Supermarket Access Areas in 2015
- Joint SNAP-unemployment insurance benefit receipt rose in all six study States over 2006-09
- The number of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits tracks the unemployment rate more closely than the SNAP caseload does
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- Urban consumers in low-access census tracts who are able to shop in nearby tracts face variety-adjusted food prices that are 3.5 percent higher than those in high-access urban tracts
- Distance to grocery stores and vehicle access affect low-income shoppers’ food spending