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Download full textGray, Kelsey Farson; Eslami, Esa – US Department of Agriculture, 2014
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves as the foundation of America's national nutrition safety net. It is the nation's first line of defense against food insecurity and offers a powerful tool to improve nutrition among low-income individuals. SNAP is the largest of the 15 domestic food and nutrition assistance programs…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Food Service, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients
Schmit, Stephanie; Ewen, Danielle – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2012
Since its creation in 1965, Head Start has provided high quality early education and comprehensive support services to three- and four-year-olds in poor families. In addition to early learning opportunities, Head Start's comprehensive early childhood development program provides children and families with access to a range of services such as…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Legislation
Newman, Constance; Ralston, Katherine – US Department of Agriculture, 2006
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) serves more than 29 million children each day, but there is little information on the characteristics of those children. This study reports new estimates of NSLP participant characteristics using two national surveys: the 2001 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the 1999-2002…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, National Programs, Lunch Programs, National Surveys
Newman, Constance; Ralston, Katherine – US Department of Agriculture, 2006
In 2004, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) served an average of 29 million lunches daily, at a Federal cost of $7.6 billion. Schools are reimbursed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) according to the number of each type of meal served. FNS administrative data do not include information on the…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, National Programs, Lunch Programs, National Surveys
Peer reviewedParisi, Domenico; McLaughlin, Diane K.; Grice, Steven Michael; Taquino, Michael; Gill, Duane A. – Rural Sociology, 2003
Single mothers' participation rates in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in rural Mississippi were influenced by community-level characteristics: educational attainment, racial composition, employment structure, civic engagement, and spatial concentration of poverty. Particularly, TANF participation rates were higher in the Delta and…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Community Characteristics, Community Resources
Oshinsky, Carole J., Ed. – The Forum, 2002
This document contains 16 issues of the first 5 years of a newsletter encouraging collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform and focusing on the use of an on-line database of child welfare research projects, as well as research and policy issues related to implementation studies, indicators of well-being, and administrative data.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Children
