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Federal Spending on Food Programs Increases from 1990 to 2007 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 Statistical Abstract, December 2008)

Federal spending on food programs increased significantly between 1990 and 2007.

Post author By Emily Zimmerman
Post date December 12, 2008

Federal spending on food programs increased significantly between 1990 and 2007.

This link opens a table at the Census Bureau website on federal spending totals for food stamps, school breakfast and lunch programs, WIC, child and adult care, donated commodities.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/09s0551.pdf

Tags federal food programs, food insecurity, Food Stamps, hunger, school breakfast, school lunch, WIC