POLICY BRIEF: Food-Assistance Programs Have Positive Impacts on Food Retail

Bonnie Berman 2/19/201:10 PM

In a new policy brief from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, Timothy Beatty, Marianne Bitler, and Cynthia van der Werf of UC Davis find that current policy proposals to shrink the SNAP budget would likely have negative economic consequences.

Key Facts

SNAP redemptions totaled $76 billion in 2013, representing more than 10 percent of sales at supermarkets.
Rollout of the Food Stamp Program in the 1960s and 1970s lead to more people working in food and grocery stores, more employment, higher real payroll, and higher real sales.
Food-assistance programs likely affect the retail food environment, bringing benefits to both participants and nonparticipants.

https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/si...brief.pdf?1581503104

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