Continued Participation in Congregate Meal Programs: The Role of Geographic Access to Food

The Nutrition Services Program is the largest program that provides prepared meals to older adults in need.

Food Insecurity is Directly Associated with the Use of Health Services for Adverse Health Events among Older Adults

In 2018, 14.3 million US households experienced food insecurity, which has been linked to negative health outcomes such as depression and anxiety, diabetes, and hypertension.

Randomized Controlled Trial of Healthy Harlem's Get Fit Program: An After-School Intervention for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in the Harlem Children's Zone

This article estimates the effect of Healthy Harlem's Get Fit—a 12-week after-school program aimed at helping students improve physical activity and eating habits—on BMI and weight status of adolescents.

Nutrition Services Program Participation and the Diet Quality of Older Adults

Congregate and home-delivered meals provided through the Title III-C Nutrition Services Program (NSP) can be an important source of nutrition for older adults.

Evaluation of the Effect of the Older Americans Act Title III-C Nutrition Services Program on Participants’ Health Care Utilization

Research shows that food insecure seniors suffer adverse health effects at a higher rate when compared with food secure seniors. This study presents findings on the effect that the Nutrition Services Program has on participants’ Medicare-funded health care utilization.

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on Student Fitness Outcomes after Two and Three Years

This issue brief focuses on fitness outcomes of overweight and obese middle and high school students who received both the Prevention and Get Fit components of Healthy Harlem, after two and three years.

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on the Body Mass Index and Weight Status of Adolescents after Two and Three Years

This issue brief focuses on body mass index (BMI)-based outcomes of overweight and obese middle and high school students who received both the Prevention and Get Fit components of Healthy Harlem, after two and three years.

Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter?

Most labor market search models ignore the fact that decisions are often made at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating a household search model with on-the-job search and labor supply.

Examination of the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefit and Eligibility Parameters on Low-Income Households (Fact Sheet)

This study examines how the policies that determine benefit levels for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reflect current low-income household spending patterns, using 2013 and 2014 national expenditure and SNAP participation data.

Examination of the Effect of SNAP Benefit and Eligibility Parameters on Low-Income Households (Executive Summary)

This study examines how the policies that determine benefit levels for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reflect current low-income household spending patterns, using 2013 and 2014 national expenditure and SNAP participation data.

Examination of the Effect of SNAP Benefit and Eligibility Parameters on Low-Income Households

This study examines how the policies that determine benefit levels for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reflect current low-income household spending patterns, using 2013 and 2014 national expenditure and SNAP participation data.

The Nutrition Services Program Outcomes Evaluation (Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet summarizes Nutrition Services Program participants’ characteristics and impressions of the program and the program’s impact on participants’ food security, socialization, and diet quality.

The Impact of Healthy Harlem on the Prevalence of Child Overweight and Obesity and Contributing Factors: Interim Evaluation Report

The Healthy Harlem program, which is focused on improving health, nutrition, and physical fitness among children enrolled in the Harlem Children’s Zone, had positive impacts on students’ nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy, fitness, and body mass index (BMI).

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Emergency Food Pantry Use (Journal Article)

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit allotments are sufficient for some households, but 76% of SNAP households that enter the program while using pantries continue to do so about 6 months later, which underscores the need to assess the adequacy of SNAP benefit allotments in ensuring access...

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

This report presents findings from a rapid cycle evaluation of an operational component of a Pay for Success initiative. The initiative is designed to place chronically homeless individuals into housing as quickly as possible to reduce the cost of emergency services used while homeless.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participants' Employment Characteristics and Barriers to Work

This report examines the labor force participation and employment decisions of SNAP participants, job characteristics among employed participants, and barriers to work among participants who are not working, using the most recently available national longitudinal survey data.

Emergency Food Pantry Use Among SNAP Households with Children (Issue Brief)

This issue brief examines the association between SNAP participation and pantry use for households with children recently enrolled in SNAP.

Evaluation of the Effect of the Older Americans Act Title III-C Nutrition Services Program on Participants' Food Security, Socialization, and Diet Quality

In an effort to ensure that the health and social needs of older adults are adequately met and to rebalance long-term care provision away from institutionalization and toward home and community-based services, the Administration on Aging (AoA) within the Administration for Community Living of the U.S....

Household Lifetime Inequality Estimates in the U.S. Labor Market

This paper provides household lifetime inequality indexes derived from representative U.S. labor market data.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Local Program Outreach and Eligibility Services (Journal Article)

Program outreach activities are integral components of social welfare programs, but the relationship between availability of outreach services and households’ program participation has not been examined due to lack of data on outreach efforts.

Process Evaluation of Older Americans Act Title III-C Nutrition Services Program

The Title III-C Nutrition Services Program (NSP), administered by the Administration on Aging (AoA) within the Administration for Community Living of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under the Older Americans Act (OAA), represents a key component of America’s strategy for ensuring...

Findings from the Nutrition Services Program Process Study and Meal Cost Analysis

Presentation for the National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging Webinar.

Association of Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Psychological Distress

This article assessed whether households’ participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was associated with improvements in well-being, as indicated by lower rates of psychological distress.

Diet Quality of American School Children by National School Lunch Program Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010 (Summary)

This report uses data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2005-2010) to provide a comprehensive picture of the nutrient intakes, food choices, and diet quality of USDA National School Lunch Program (NSLP) participants.

Diet Quality of American School Children by National School Lunch Program Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010

This study provides information on the quality of school children’s diets from multiple perspectives, including usual nutrient intakes and food consumption patterns.

Diet Quality of Americans by SNAP Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2010 (Summary)

This report uses data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to provide a comprehensive picture of the nutrient intakes, food choices, and diet quality of USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants.

Diet Quality of Americans by SNAP Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2010

This report provides information on the quality of SNAP participants’ diets from multiple perspectives, including usual nutrient intakes and food consumption patterns.

Diet Quality of American Young Children by WIC Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2008 (Summary)

Diet Quality of American Young Children by WIC Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2008

This report provides information on the quality of young children’s diets from multiple perspectives, including usual nutrient intakes and food consumption patterns.

The Food Access Environment and Food Purchase Behavior of SNAP Households

This study describes the food access environment and food purchase behavior of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households using data from the SNAP Food Security Survey, the largest and most recent national survey of SNAP participants to date.

Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation from 2008 to 2012 (Testimony)

The WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory Study (In Focus Brief)

The promotion and support of breastfeeding is a vital part of the nutrition services provided by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory

Breastfeeding promotion and support is a core component of the nutrition services provided by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Determinants of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation from 2008 to 2012

This study examines individual- and state-level factors that are associated with individuals’ decisions to enter and leave the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation from 2008 to 2012

This study examines Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation dynamics between October 2008 and December 2012. In particular, it describes patterns of SNAP entry, length of time on the program, and re-entry for policy-relevant subgroups, and discusses how these patterns have changed...

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Child Food Security

This article estimates the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on children’s food security using data from the largest national survey of food security of SNAP participants to date.

SNAP Participation and Urban and Rural Food Security

This report examines whether the prevalence of household food insecurity, and the association between SNAP and household food insecurity, differ depending on whether a household lives in an urban or rural area.

SNAP Participation, Food Security, and Geographic Access to Food

This report examines SNAP households’ geographic access to food for two groups of households: those that recently entered the program, referred to as new-entrant households, and those that had participated in SNAP for about six to seven months, referred to as six-month households.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Food Security Survey: Impacts of Urbanicity and Food Access on Food Security (Summary)

A 2013 study, Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security, found that participating in SNAP for 6 months was associated with a decrease in food insecurity by about 5 to 10 percentage points, including households with food insecurity among children.

Characterizing Food Access in America: Considering the Role of Emergency Food Pantries in Areas without Supermarkets

This study provides a more comprehensive depiction of the environment in which low-income households and other vulnerable populations acquire and purchase food by considering access to emergency food pantries in areas lacking supermarkets.

Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security (Executive Summary)

SNAP Food Security was the largest survey of food security and food spending among SNAP participants to date, with 9,811 households interviewed in 30 states.

Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance to more than 47 million low-income Americans every month. It aims to reduce hunger by facilitating beneficiaries’ access to enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle, otherwise known as "food security."

SNAP Food Security In-Depth Interview Study

This report presents findings from the qualitative In-Depth Interview component of the SNAP Food Security (SNAPFS) study.

Economic and Geographic Access to Food Retailers and Emergency Food Pantries

This study describes the environment in which low-income households acquire and purchase food by examining the local population characteristics of areas with and without emergency food pantries and by examining the locations of food pantries in relation to the retail food environment.

Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households

This study characterizes the food security and food access of households that receive food from emergency food pantries.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Caseload Trends and Changes in Measures of Unemployment, Labor Underutilization, and Program Policy from 2000 to 2008

This study examines factors associated with the dramatic 63 percent increase in SNAP participants from 2000 to 2008—from 17 million to 28 million in an average month in each fiscal year respectively.

Food Expenditures and Diet Quality Among Low-Income Households and Individuals (Summary)

The purpose of this study is to identify whether spending more money on food leads Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other low-income households to purchase and consume more nutritious foods.

Food Expenditures and Diet Quality Among Low-Income Households and Individuals

This report studies the relationship between food expenditures and dietary outcomes for SNAP participants and other low-income individuals and households.

Hunger in America 2010 National Report Prepared for Feeding America

Hunger in America 2010, conducted for Feeding America, is the largest, most comprehensive study to date on domestic hunger.