Food Stamp Reform

Undeserving: SNAP Reform and Conceptions of the Deserving Poor
By Matthew Gritter
This book explores attempts to reform the SNAP program and argues that many recent reform efforts are based on conceptions of the undeserving poor rather than data about SNAP recipients.
Welfare Reform: State and Local Responses to Restricting Food Stamp Benefits
By Robert E. Robertson
Focuses on the two groups of individuals that were the most likely to lose their food stamp benefits -- able-bodied adults without dependents, and legal immigrants.
Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform: Summary of a Workshop
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Welfare Reform: Few States Are Likely to Use the Simplified Food Stamp Program
By United States Government Accountability Office
RCED-99-43 Welfare Reform: Few States Are Likely to Use the Simplified Food Stamp Program
Reform Reversed?: The Restoration of Welfare Benefits to Immigrants in California
By Margaret O'Brien-Strain, Thomas E. MaCurdy
Reform Reversed?: The Restoration of Welfare Benefits to Immigrants in California