Gundersen, Craig; Yanez, Mara; Valdes, Constanza; Kuhn, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2002
The social safety nets in Mexico and the United States rely heavily on food assistance programs to ensure food security …, cultural, and demographic differences between the countries lead to differences in their abilities to ensure food security and … States uses only household targeting. U.S. food assistance programs tend to be countercyclical (as the economy expands, food …