Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence
The replacement of AFDC with the Temporary Assistance to NeedyFamilies program (TANF) has led to record declines in dependenceand poverty.
View ArticleFood Stamp Program is Outdated
To answer that question, we must distinguish between hunger and malnutrition. Malnutrition is a condition of reduced health due to a chronic shortage of calories and nutriments. Thankfully,...
View ArticleMayors' Claims of Growing Hunger Appear Wildly Exaggerated
Policymakers should be wary of the claims of "increasing hunger"that are likely to be made in the 2003 U.S. Conference of Mayorsreport. Year after year, the mayors' hunger report shows analarming...
View ArticleMayors' Claims of Growing Hunger Are Once Again Exaggerated
According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, food-bank use in majorcities has increased at an average rate of 16 percent per year forthe past decade and a half and roughly doubles every four years.The...
View ArticleWhat the Latest Numbers on Hunger and Food Insecurity Really Say
America's Second Harvest has issued a useful report on the role ofits food banks and food rescue organizations in the social safetynet, but results have been misreported. The survey, for example,does...
View ArticleHunger Hysteria: Examining Food Security and Obesity in America
USDA food security data show poverty and hunger in America arelinked to widespread obesity; use of food stamps increases obesityamong the poor.
View ArticleThis Week on the Hill: November 19
"Heritages Brian Darling discusses the Iraq funding request, government-sponsored health care for illegal immigrants, and how obesity afflicts Americas poor."
View ArticleHunger Hysteria
This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report on household food security in the United States. According to USDA, some 12.5 million households, or roughly 11 percent...
View ArticleAddressing the Global Food Crisis
Measures to deal with the food crisis should include eliminating the artificial demand created by ethanol and other biofuel mandates, making food assistance more effective and efficient, eliminating...
View ArticleA Hand Up, Not a Hand Out
For many of us, the holiday season means gathering with friends and family and celebrating with food and drink. Too much food, in many cases.
View ArticleRobert Rector on the stimulus on CNN
Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, discusses the Stimmulus
View ArticleSolutions for America: The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare
Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to...
View ArticleRobert Rector on Free and Reduced Price Lunches on FNC
Robert Rector comments on the free and reduced price school lunch program.
View ArticleSignificant Food Shortages Rare in America
As Thanksgiving arrives, we usually hear an increased clamor about "hunger" in America. This year is no exception. Timed to the holiday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture just released its annual...
View ArticleExecutive Summary: Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What Is Poverty...
For decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty,” but the bureau’s definition of poverty differs widely from that held by most Americans. In...
View ArticleAir Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States...
The average poor family in the U.S. has a computer, air conditioning, cable TV and an Xbox. It is not hungry and is well-housed.
View ArticleThe 2012 Index of Dependence on Government
The Index of Dependence on Government highlights the gathering fiscal storm clouds. Today more people depend on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid, or other assistance once...
View ArticleG8 Food Security Agenda Should Encourage Greater Economic Freedom, Not More...
The focal point of the G8 food security agenda should be advancing economic freedom—the indispensable ingredient in promoting growth and development.
View ArticleReforming the Food Stamp Program
Congress and the Administration should transform food stamps into a program that encourages work and self-sufficiency, close eligibility loopholes, and, after the recession ends, reduce food stamp...
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