Matthew Gritter, Iain MacRobert

The Policy and Politics of Food Stamps and Snap

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in some cases enhanced as a result of its inclusion in the Farm Bill, being characterized as a safety net of last resort and as a program for the deserving poor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-52091-3
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 87
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781137520913
• ISBN-10: 1137520914
• Artikelnr.: 43116965

Autorenporträt

Matthew Gritter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, USA. He is the author of Mexican Inclusion: The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest (2012).             

Inhaltsangabe

1. Food Stamps and SNAP: History, Policy and Politics 2. The Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and the
Saving of Food Stamps 1995-2000 3. Big Government Conservatism, Expanding
and Reframing Food Stamps: George W. Bush, Welfare Reform and the 2002 Farm
Bill 4. A New Right Wing Consensus? Attacks on SNAP and the Preservation of
the Program 5. Conclusion