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Food Assistance: USDA's Multiprogram Approach

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Nov. 24, 1993
Report No. RCED-94-33
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Summary:

About 39 million people receive federal food assistance through the Agriculture Department's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service. In fiscal year 1992, the Service and state agencies jointly ran 14 programs that provided food assistance at a federal cost of about $33 billion--about 58 percent of USDA's total budget; about 63 percent of this went to children. This report provides information on (1) USDA's food assistance programs; (2) the strengths and weaknesses of the current multiprogram approach; and (3) alternative approaches to delivering food assistance identified by federal, state, and other officials.

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