Why SNAP Works: A Political History-and Defense-of the Food Stamp Program

The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the nation’s largest government effort for helping low—income Americans obtain an adequate diet. How did SNAP, formerly the food stamp program, evolve from a Depression—era project to use up surplus goods into America’s foundational food assistance program? And how does SNAP survive? Incisive and original, Why SNAP Works is the first book to pr...