Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform Summary of a Workshop (1999) / Chapter Skim
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The act retained food stamps as a federal entitlement program, but reduced welfare benefits, restricted benefits to legal immigrants, and imposed work requirements on able-bodied adults without dependents. With such major changes to these programs, the consequences for the current population of recipients and their children are expected to be extensive.
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, and with the Food and Nutrition Board of the IOM, CNSTAT convened a one-and-a-half-day workshop on February 12-13, 1998, to discuss evaluation of food assistance programs in an era of welfare reform. Participants were drawn from the areas of program evaluation, policy analysis, survey methods, food assistance, nutrition, child nutrition and child development, outcome measurement, and state social service programs.
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· Devolution of program authority to the states makes it increasingly important to use administrative data from state records, taking information from such sources as TANF, the Food Stamp Program, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and tax reporting systems. Linking these data with national surveys can provide useful information for research purposes.
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