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Food Stamps: Program Parameters and Standards of Living for Low-Income Households

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Mark Brown  and
S. R. Johnson
Mark Brown
Affiliation:
University of Missouri-Columbia
S. R. Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Missouri-Columbia
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The food stamp and other assistance programs for low-income households require continual adjustment if some form of equity across time is to be achieved. For this reason, cost-of-living adjustments and related mechanisms for reflecting changes in prices and the economic status of the target populations have been used in formulae for computing the food stamp bonus and other welfare transfers.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 43 - 49
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1983

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