Feature Story

March 30, 2009

Policy Basics: Introduction to the Food Stamp Program

From Center on Budget: Food Assistance:

What Is the Food Stamp Program? The Food Stamp Program, the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, helped more than 31 million low-income Americans at the end of fiscal year 2009 to afford a nutritionally adequate diet. (Effective October 1, 2008, the 2007 farm bill renamed the Food Stamp Program the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.) More than 75 percent of all food stamp participants are in families with children; nearly one-third of participants are elderly … Read more from this post.