Reconsidering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as Community Development

Chrisinger, Benjamin W.

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2014.10.005

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“…Scholars have investigated the efficacy of SNAP (Alaimo, Briefel, Frongillo, & Olson, 1998;Ratcliffe, McKernan, & Zhang, 2011;Ribar & Hamrick, 2003) finding mixed results, depending on methodology. Scholars have also investigated the barriers to effective use of SNAP (Leung et al, 2013) and suggested methods of improving use of temporary food assistance (Chrisinger, 2015).…”

Section: Food Securitymentioning

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A systems thinking approach to the integration of food insecurity policy

Roggio

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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Food insecurity represents a growing problem in the United States, with levels of household insecurity hovering around 12.5% of national population. Policy leaders and advocates have long struggled to define adequate solutions, mired in concerns about food access and affordability, as well as overlays of equity and social justice, in part because of the numerous many ways we have measured the problem and defined and evaluated solutions. Most food security programs are designed as temporary assistance and few policy leaders or advocates are well‐placed to address leverage points for durable policy change, both because they are focused on short term solutions and because they are unable to collaborate to identify leverage points within the food policy system that would enable long term solutions. This paper offers a systems thinking assessment of a recent food policy symposium, illuminating the problem and causes as perceived by those practitioners involved in addressing household food insecurity, highlighting the lack of coherence among current stakeholders and an inability to collaboratively address the problem of food insecurity. It concludes with suggestions for future research.

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Section: Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A systems thinking approach to the integration of food insecurity policy

Roggio

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Because US$1 of SNAP spending generates approximately US$1.80 in economic activity (Chrisinger, 2015), SNAP spending contributed US$5.4 billion to the local economy, much of it to small businesses around the city (City of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio, 2014). The official SNAP participation rate is 77 percent in New York City, suggesting that about 550,000 eligible residents are not receiving the benefit (Benefits Plus Learning Center, 2015).…”

Section: Strategies To Promote Access To Healthy Affordable Foodmentioning

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The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development

Freudenberg

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Hirsch

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“…Our research is in line with recent calls to understand how programs focused on tax incentives for retailers might better interface with the stimulus provided by SNAP benefits. 22 We are aware of no research that has directly examined the association between changes in SNAP enrollment and benefits with changes in retailers' participation in SNAP within neighborhoods. To address this gap, we analyzed geographic data at the local level during a period in which both benefits and enrollment increased rapidly.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this way, SNAP benefits could also support regional food production and even the establishment of food hubs-sites that aggregate and distribute locally grown foods. 22,48 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed), a federally funded nutrition education program linked to SNAP, publicizes alternative food networks, which provide access to nutritious food while contributing to local economic development. 49 Increased SNAP enrollment was not associated with increases in the numbers of midsize, large, or specialty retailers in the core Atlanta area.…”

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Growth In SNAP Retailers Was Associated With Increased Client Enrollment In Georgia During The Great Recession

Shannon

Adams

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Health Affairs

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Policies to improve food accessibility in underserved areas often use direct financial incentives to attract new food retailers. Our analysis of data on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Georgia before and after the Great Recession suggests that increased program enrollment improves access to food for SNAP beneficiaries by acting as an indirect subsidy to retailers. We divided food stores into four categories: large, midsize, small, and specialty retailers. Between 2008 and 2011 the number of SNAP enrollees increased by 87 percent, and between 2007 and 2014 the number of SNAP retailers in Georgia increased by 82 percent, primarily because of growth in the number of authorized small retailers. Inside metropolitan Atlanta, changes in the numbers of SNAP enrollees and authorized retailers were positively and significantly associated for small retailers. For the areas outside of metropolitan Atlanta, the association between changes in numbers of enrollees and authorized retailers was strongest for small retailers; more modest associations were also seen for large and specialty retailers. Policy makers should consider how retailers' sensitivity to and reliance on SNAP funding can be leveraged to improve not only food availability, but also access to healthy foods.

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Reconsidering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as Community Development

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

A systems thinking approach to the integration of food insecurity policy

A systems thinking approach to the integration of food insecurity policy

The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development

Growth In SNAP Retailers Was Associated With Increased Client Enrollment In Georgia During The Great Recession

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