This report is based on the March Current Population Survey and presents national participation rates for the Food Stamp Program (FSP) for fiscal year 2005. Of the 38 million individuals who were eligible for benefits in an average month in 2005, 25 million participated. The FSP served about 65...

This new policy brief looks at whether food stamps are getting to the people who need them, noting wide variation from state to state.

This new policy brief looks at whether food stamps are getting to the people who need them, noting wide variation from state to state.

Notes that about 59 percent of eligible people received food stamps in September 2000, although participation varied widely from state to state. The Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Mountain Plains regions had higher participation rates than other regions, while the Southwest and Western regions had...

Focuses on trends before and after welfare reform, and through the economic expansion of the 1990s, as well as trends for different subgroups and the eligible population as a whole. Notes that the number of participants fell by 9 million, or 35 percent, from September 1994 to September 1999....