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Increased Access to Local Produce Is Leading to Healthier Lives for SNAP Recipients

Advocates working to increase access to fruits and vegetables in America's food deserts report that the growing popularity of Double Up Food Bucks programs is helping curb the $160 billion spent on illnesses related to lack of healthy food.

Jennifer Oldham

Harlem residents pack free groceries at the Food Bank For New York City on December 11th, 2013, in New York City.

Economics

Here’s More Evidence That Most Food Stamp Recipients Are Already Working

A new report confirms that, while SNAP recipients do indeed work, they may still be hurt by work requirements.

Dwyer Gunn

Economics

Dismantling Misrepresentations of Food Stamp Recipients

An anti-SNAP campaign in Washington, D.C., and proposed legislation to reduce the social safety net are both feeding off well-worn myths around welfare recipients.

Maggie You Ming Tsai

A woman holds a bag of pears as she waits in line to receive free food at the Richmond Emergency Food Bank on November 1st, 2013, in Richmond, California.

Economics

In Targeting Food Stamp Work Requirements, Congress Is Going After an Issue That Barely Exists

These three charts show that new proposed work requirements are a solution in search of a problem.

Dwyer Gunn

News in Brief

Should the Government Tell SNAP Recipients What They Can Eat?

Do the potential public-health benefits of such intervention outweigh the costs associated with implementation? By Dwyer Gunn (Photo:…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Food Stamp Recipients in Seven States Will Now Be Able to Buy Groceries Online

Here’s why that may be good for SNAP recipients. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) Last week,…

Pacific Standard Staff

Economics

Do Food Stamps Really Discourage Work?

Hundreds of thousands of the poorest Americans will lose their food stamps this year. What will become of them?

Dwyer Gunn

Economics

Is Federalism Really the Answer to Poverty and Inequality in America?

Republicans want to give states more control over education, health care, welfare, and, well, everything.

Dwyer Gunn

Social Justice

Professor, Can You Spare a Dime?

Adjuncts on the edge resort to helping each other.

Alissa Quart

Economics

Trekking Through a Food Desert Surrounded by Farmland

Millions have been spent on initiatives to eliminate food deserts, which are thought to contribute to the increasing incidence of diabetes and obesity in low-income areas. How are disadvantaged people faring in the middle of California, one of the nation's prime agricultural states?

Maria Bustillos