The Food Safety Net after Welfare Reform: Use of Private and Public Food Assistance in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area | Zendy

Jane M. Mosley | Zendy; Laura Tiehen | Zendy

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The Food Safety Net after Welfare Reform: Use of Private and Public Food Assistance in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Author(s) -

Jane M. Mosley,

Laura Tiehen

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

social service review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1537-5404

pISSN - 0037-7961

DOI - 10.1086/382769

Subject(s) - food stamps , metropolitan area , safety net , business , food safety , welfare , agricultural economics , food insecurity , economic growth , food security , environmental health , geography , economics , political science , food science , medicine , agriculture , law , chemistry , archaeology

This study documents reliance on the private and public food safety net in the Kansas City metropolitan area. While the use of food pantries is widespread, the frequency of food pantry use is low compared to food stamp use. However, almost 60 percent of food pantry recipients also received food stamps at some time during the studied period. Between 1998 and 2001, just over one‐third of food stamp clients also visited a pantry. The data suggest that households are not substituting one form of assistance for the other but rather are accessing multiple types of assistance when necessary.

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