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"Children eating lunch at school" by US Department of Agriculture, used under CC-BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original, with colour filter
27 May 2016 Health Authors: Douglas Almond (Columbia University and NBER), Hilary W. Hoynes (University of California, Berkeley and NBER), Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (Northwestern University)

Impoverished children with access to food stamps become healthier and wealthier adults

Adults who participated in the Food Stamp Program, renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, as children are healthier and better off financially than poverty-stricken families who did not have access to the program, according to findings in joint work with Douglas Almond and Diane Schanzenbach (this paper and a companion paper Almond, et al. 2011).

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