William Masters | Econofact

Coronavirus

COVID-19 Impacts on Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition

April 20, 2020

Lines represent simple average of selected companies in each sector of the food system:

• Grocery Outlets	Kroger (KR), Sprouts Farmers Markets (SFM), Weis Markets (WMK)
• Packaged foods	Campbell Soup (CPB), General Mills (GIS), Hormel (HRL), Kellogg's (K), JM Smucker (SJM)
• S&P

Social Policy

SNAP: A Temporary, Fraud-Resistant, Family Friendly Policy

June 28, 2017

The Issue:

Large cuts and restrictions on America’s anti-poverty programs have been proposed and are under debate in Congress, motivated in part by legitimate concerns that providing assistance could encourage fraud, create dependency, and distort behavior. This worry has been most forcefully articulated by ...
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Social Policy

Anti-Poverty Program at Stake in Battle Over 2018 Farm Bill

April 17, 2017

The Issue:

Congressional committees in the House and the Senate have begun hearings towards the next Farm Bill, replacing the 2014 legislation that authorizes about $100 billion per year in Federal spending for agriculture, food and nutrition assistance and is set to expire in 2018. Many programs funded through ...
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