Food and Nutrition Assistance Policy
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guided by the principle that Americans should not be hungry or malnourished because they cannot afford a nutritious diet. Food assistance programs help to provide food and meet nutritional requirements for individuals and households that are vulnerable due to low income or other circumstances. Originally initiated in the early 1930s, with the primary objective to dispose of surplus agricultural commodities, today the programs emphasize food access, nutrition, diet quality, and health for low-income families and their children. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) spends over $30 billion a year on food and nutrition assistance programs — an amount that is over one-half of the USDA budget and that is projected to grow to over 60 percent in the next five years (see Figure 1). Historically, U.S. food assisstance programs featured the purchase and distribution of surplus agricultural commodities to low-income households and to school lunch programs. The introduction of a food stamp program in 1961 allowed low-income households to purchase food in stores with food stamp coupons. Over time, the design of food Food and Nutrition Assistance Policy
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Nearly four million Californians are food insecure.
Food insecurity has increased significantly among low-income Californians over the last decade. According to data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey, 3.8 million adults in households with incomes at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) could not afford enough food at least once in the previous year. Low-income households with children and Spanish-speaking households su...
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