Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/01/what-snap-recipients-buy-at-one-big-retail-grocery/
Advocates have been pressing USDA for years to (1) get data on what SNAP recipients buy with their benefits, and (2) permit pilot studies of what happens to purchases of soft drinks if you exclude them from the benefit package.
In 2012, I did a post on the 2012 SNAP to Health report. Its recommendations:
- Protect SNAP benefits.
- Collect data
Lots of people have been trying to get USDA to produce data. Anahad O’Connor, the author of the New York Times account, filed a Freedom of Information request with USDA. In response, USDA sent him a report it had commissioned from IMPAQ, a “beltway bandit” consulting firm.
Now we have a partial answer. IMPAQ analyzed data from one large, unnamed retailer (could it be Walmart?).
Here’s USDA’s summary of the study (and here’s the complete study).
The USDA says the study shows that SNAP recipients buy pretty…
Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/01/what-snap-recipients-buy-at-one-big-retail-grocery/
Advocates have been pressing USDA for years to (1) get data on what SNAP recipients buy with their benefits, and (2) permit pilot studies of what happens to purchases of soft drinks if you exclude them from the benefit package.
In 2012, I did a post on the 2012 SNAP to Health report. Its recommendations:
- Protect SNAP benefits.
- Collect data
Lots of people have been trying to get USDA to produce data. Anahad O’Connor, the author of the New York Times account, filed a Freedom of Information request with USDA. In response, USDA sent him a report it had commissioned from IMPAQ, a “beltway bandit” consulting firm.
Now we have a partial answer. IMPAQ analyzed data from one large, unnamed retailer (could it be Walmart?).
Here’s USDA’s summary of the study (and here’s the complete study).
The USDA says the study shows that SNAP recipients buy pretty…
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