Public and Private Efforts to Feed America's Poor: Report to the Honorable Dennis E. Eckart, House of Representatives |
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... Nutrition Service and Economic Research Service , ( 2 ) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ' Office of Community Services , ( 3 ) State and local government offices in California and Ohio , and ( 4 ) a wide range of emerg ...
... Nutrition Service and Economic Research Service , ( 2 ) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ' Office of Community Services , ( 3 ) State and local government offices in California and Ohio , and ( 4 ) a wide range of emerg ...
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... Nutrition Service administers a number of domestic food assistance programs which are intended to provide a more nutritious diet for families and persons with low incomes and to encourage better eating patterns among the Nation's ...
... Nutrition Service administers a number of domestic food assistance programs which are intended to provide a more nutritious diet for families and persons with low incomes and to encourage better eating patterns among the Nation's ...
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... Nutrition Service ( 1 ) offset the direct effects of the economic situation for millions of citizens in need and ( 2 ) have been targeted to those most in need of compassion and support ( defined by USDA to be those with incomes at or ...
... Nutrition Service ( 1 ) offset the direct effects of the economic situation for millions of citizens in need and ( 2 ) have been targeted to those most in need of compassion and support ( defined by USDA to be those with incomes at or ...
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... Nutrition Service administers the program at the Federal level and pro- vides full funding of food stamp benefits and at least half of the administrative costs . At the State and local levels , the program is administered by welfare ...
... Nutrition Service administers the program at the Federal level and pro- vides full funding of food stamp benefits and at least half of the administrative costs . At the State and local levels , the program is administered by welfare ...
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... Service , and Child Care Food Programs . Funds are also made available for nutrition studies , nutrition education and training , and State administra- tive expenses . In terms of Federal dollars spent , the child nutrition pro- grams ...
... Service , and Child Care Food Programs . Funds are also made available for nutrition studies , nutrition education and training , and State administra- tive expenses . In terms of Federal dollars spent , the child nutrition pro- grams ...
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additional administration agencies AMERICANS SEEKING FOOD annual rate butter distribution program California and Ohio centers we visited charitable organizations cheese and butter Community Services Administration distribute food dollars domestic food assistance edible efforts emergency food centers emergency jobs appropriations exist Federal domestic food Federal food Federal Government Federal spending feed the needy feed the poor fiscal year 1982 Food and Nutrition food assistance needs food assistance programs food industry food needs food programs Food Stamp Program food waste funding Greater Cleveland groups income increasing numbers institutions involved in providing low-income million persons million pounds need for food number of Americans number of persons Nutrition Service operating otherwise be wasted poverty level poverty line private sector providing food assistance Salvation Army Samaritan law San Mateo County school lunch Second Harvest SEEKING FOOD ASSISTANCE special cheese spending for domestic storage summer food surplus food tion transportation USDA officials USDA's WIC Program
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Page 12 - State's agreement to participate in studies and surveys of programs authorized under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966...
Page 14 - State health agencies to provide specified nutritious supplemental foods, nutritional counseling, and health care referrals to lowincome pregnant, postpartum, and breast-feeding women, and to infants and children up to their fifth birthday who are determined by competent professionals (physicians, nutritionists, and other health officials) to be at risk due to medically related nutritional conditions or inadequate diets.
Page 9 - Intended to provide access to a more nutritious diet for families and persons with low Incomes and encourage better eating patterns among the nation's children.
Page 1 - Use" that about 20 percent of all food produced in the United States is lost or wasted in one year — some 137 million tons valued at $31 billion.
Page 12 - Food stamps are designed primarily to increase the food purchasing power of eligible low-income households to a point where they can buy a nutritionally adequate low-cost diet.
Page 7 - More of them are members of families, young and able-bodied, and have homes in the suburbs. They now find themselves without work, with unemployment benefits and savings accounts exhausted, and with diminishing hopes of being able to continue to meet their mortgage, automobile and other payments which they committed themselves to when times were better.
Page 12 - The Food Stamp Program is designed to increase the food purchasing power of low-income households so that they can buy a nutritionally adequate low-cost diet.
Page 12 - The food stamp program operates in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Guam.
Page 9 - Some religious leaders, social workers, advocacy groups, and program beneficiaries have stated that funding level cuts (1) have been too deep, (2) have come at a time of economic downturn when unemployment is high, (3) have come from reduced benefits to families living below the poverty line, and (4) are partly to blame for the increasing number of people requesting help from emergency food programs.
Page 13 - NFCS included two samples: a basic sample of all households and a low-income sample of households with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty thresholds — a level consistent with eligibility for the Food Stamp Program.