Foods Poverty and The Effect on Children

Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley. Her research focuses on poverty, food and nutrition programmes and the impact of government policies on low-income families.

Professor Hoynes earned her PhD in Economics from Stanford and she was Professor at the University of California Davis prior to joining Berkeley.

Her work on food poverty is interesting indeed. One million people have visited UK food banks and this work explains the effect on children of malnourishment when growing up. 

ABC Note: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the U.S. It is a federal aid program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), though benefits are distributed by each U.S. state's Division of Social Services or Children and Family Services.

SNAP benefits cost $70.9 billion in fiscal year 2016 and supplied roughly 44.2 million Americans with an average of $125.51 for each person per month in food assistance

Additional Information: Courtesy of Wikipedia.