Food stamp recipients approved of the new program, which gave them greater choice in what to eat, beyond just the surplus items being handed out by the government.
Then, when you gave away flour or butter, I sold none. Building on the initial success, the food stamp program was rolled out to additional pilot cities and expanded to half the counties in the United States. The program fed 20 million Americans until it was discontinued in when the economic stimulus provided by World War II eased unemployment and crop surpluses. President John F. Kennedy , who had been struck by the poverty he had witnessed in West Virginia during the Democratic primary campaign, revived food stamps as a pilot program as one of his first actions upon taking office in While recipients were still required to pay for their food stamps, the special stamps for surplus goods were eliminated.
Johnson on August 31, , codified and expanded the program. A woman using food stamps to purchase her groceries in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Although launched by Democratic presidents, the food stamp program saw its largest expansion under the stewardship of a Republican president, Richard Nixon , in the wake of Senator Robert F.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The food stamp program continued to receive bipartisan support in the years that followed. Republican Senator Bob Dole and Democratic Senator George McGovern spearheaded the passage of the Food Stamp Reform Act of , which strengthened anti-fraud provisions and eliminated the requirement that recipients purchase food stamp coupons.
A social worker with the Cooperative Feeding Program displays a federal food stamps card that is used to purchase food like a debit card. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
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These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. In , the Carter administration finally revised the food stamp program so recipients did not have to pay for the stamps. The program replaces physical food stamps with an Electronic Benefits Card EBT with which recipients can purchase food.
The EBT card is expected to reduce both program costs and the fraud that occurs when participants sell the food stamps for money instead of using them for food. According to USDA's "Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program," statistics show an increasing number of households qualify for the program each year, the majority of qualifying households have children, and one third of recipients live in homes where there is only one head of household.
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