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Issues in Food Assistance—How Unemployment Affects the Food Stamp Program By Kenneth Hanson and Craig Gundersen ERS Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. FANRR26-7. 6 pp, October 2002 This issues brief examines the link between unemployment and food stamps, with an emphasis on the potential magnitude of economic and policy changes on food stamp caseloads. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate leads to about 700,000 more food stamp recipients in the first year and in the longer run, this increase leads to 1.3 million more food stamp recipients. Keywords: food stamp program, unemployment rate, food assistance, recession In this report ... Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Entire Document, 40 kb. See other reports in the Issues in Food Assistance series. Order this report (stock #FANRR26-7) web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov page updated: October 23, 2002

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