Background The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, serves the primary method of governmental-funded defense against insecurity in USA through provision food-purchasing assistance to eligible low-income people and families. However, participation SNAP has been associated with dietary disparities increased risk chronic disease overweight obesity. Low-i...

BackgroundTo reduce childhood hunger, the US Department of Agriculture funded several innovative demonstration projects, including Kentucky Ticket to Healthy Food project.ObjectiveThe study tested hypothesis that would child food insecurity (FI-C) among rural, low-income households.DesignThe used a randomized controlled trial in which households were randomly assigned treatment and control grou...

We read with interest the Symposium articles on Responsive Feeding (1–5) and applaud The Journal of Nutrition for this Symposium as it rightly places focus on the importance of the feeding relationship to early childhood physical and mental well being. We wish to comment on two of the articles: the article by Engle and Pelto, " Responsive Feeding: Implications for Policy and Program Implementat...

This dissertation consists of three chapters with a central theme on Hispanic inflows and public goods provision. The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for Hispanic immigrant households relative to native households. An a...