Feeding the crisis : care and abandonment in America's food safety net

Feeding the crisis : care and abandonment in America's food safety net /

"The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Despite the common belief that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expa...

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Main Author: Dickinson, Maggie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 71.
Subjects:
Food relief > New York (State) > New York.
Food relief > Case studies > 21st century.
Food relief > Government policy > United States.
Food security > New York (State) > New York.
Food relief.
Food relief > Government policy.
Food security.
New York (State) > New York.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Feeding the crisis
  • Care and abandonment in the food safety net
  • The carrot and the stick
  • Men, food assistance, and caring labor
  • Free to serve? emergency food and volunteer labor
  • No free lunch : The limits of food assistance as a public health intervention
  • Ending hunger, addressing the crisis
  • Post-script : The right to food in the Trump era.

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