Food Stamps: 1982 Legislation (open access)

Food Stamps: 1982 Legislation

This report discusses legislative issues regarding food stamp appropriations. Authorization for food stamp appropriations was to have expired at the end of FY82; in addition, the FY83-85 budget resolution assumed substantial savings in food stamps. As a result, and with the potential of an FY82 food stamp funding shortfall averted by the appropriation of a $1 billion supplemental, Congress acted to reauthorize appropriations and limit program costs in the 1982 budget reconciliation process.
Date: January 10, 1983
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FOOD STAMPS: BACKGROUND AND FUNDING (open access)

FOOD STAMPS: BACKGROUND AND FUNDING

This report gives an overview of the background and funding of the food stamps program.
Date: November 7, 2000
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consumers and Food Price Inflation (open access)

Consumers and Food Price Inflation

The heightened commodity price volatility of 2008 and the subsequent acceleration in U.S. food price inflation raised concerns and generated many questions about farm and food price movements by Members of Congress and their constituents. This report responds to those concerns by addressing the nature and measurement of retail food price inflation.
Date: November 4, 2009
Creator: Schnepf, Randy & Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Food Stamp Program Works (open access)

How the Food Stamp Program Works

This report briefly describes the present operation of the Food Stamp program, reflecting legislative revisions through 1982.
Date: October 7, 1982
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Changes in the Food Stamp Program (open access)

Legislative Changes in the Food Stamp Program

This report is about the Food stamp amendments of 1980.
Date: July 30, 1980
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Concise History of the Food Stamp Program (open access)

A Concise History of the Food Stamp Program

The Food Stamp Program has undergone a number of major changes since its modern version was established in 1961. It is now one of the largest "welfare" programs and provides an income supplement to the food-purchasing power of more than 18 million persons each month, at a cost of nearly $7 billion annually. This report traces the history of the program from 1961 through 1979, with an emphasis on how program rules, philosophy, participation, and costs have changed over the years.
Date: November 16, 1979
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Concise History of the Food Stamp Program (open access)

A Concise History of the Food Stamp Program

The Food Stamp Program has undergone a number of major changes since its modern version was established in 1961. It is now one of the largest "welfare" programs and provides an income supplement to the food-purchasing power of more than 18 million persons each month, at a cost of nearly $7 billion annually. This report traces the history of the program from 1961 through 1979, with an emphasis on how program rules, philosophy, participation, and costs have changed over the years.
Date: November 16, 1979
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Stamps and Nutrition Programs in the 2002 Farm Bill (open access)

Food Stamps and Nutrition Programs in the 2002 Farm Bill

This report gives an overview of food stamps, nutrition programs, and activities covered in the 2002 farm bill.
Date: October 12, 2006
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-For-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations (open access)

Iraq: Oil-For-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations

This report discusses the "oil-for-food" program (OFFP) as the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program, in operation from December 1996 until March 2003, is detailed.
Date: March 21, 2005
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth & Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-For-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations (open access)

Iraq: Oil-For-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations

This report discusses the "oil-for-food" program (OFFP) as the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program, in operation from December 1996 until March 2003, is detailed.
Date: June 14, 2005
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth & Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations (open access)

Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations

The “oil-for-food” program (OFFP) was the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. In order to ensure that Iraq remained contained and that only humanitarian needs were served by the program, the program imposed controls on Iraqi oil exports and humanitarian imports. All Iraqi oil revenues legally earned under the program were held in a U.N.-controlled escrow account and were not accessible to the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Date: January 9, 2006
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth & Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations (open access)

Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations

This report discusses issues with the “oil-for-food” program (OFFP), which was the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program terminated following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the assumption of sovereignty by an interim Iraqi government on June 28, 2004, and the lifting of Saddam-era U.N. sanctions. However, since the fall of the regime, there have been new allegations of mismanagement and abuse of the program, including allegations that Saddam Hussein’s regime manipulated the program to influence U.N. officials, contractors, and politicians and businessmen in numerous countries.
Date: April 6, 2005
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth & Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy (open access)

The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy

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Date: July 17, 2014
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Aussenberg, Randy Alison & Cowan, Tadlock
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy (open access)

The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy

This report looks at the growing popularity of locally produced foods, and how that popularity and regional/local food systems are affected by the reauthorization of the 2008 farm bill.
Date: March 12, 2013
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Aussenberg, Randy A. & Cowan, Tadlock
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety in the 111th Congress (open access)

Food Safety in the 111th Congress

This report discusses whether the current food safety system has the resources, authority, and structural organization to safeguard the health of American consumers, who spend more than $1 trillion on food each year. Also at issue is whether federal food safety laws, first enacted in the early 1900s, have kept pace with the significant changes that have occurred in the food production, processing, and marketing sectors since then.
Date: September 23, 2010
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations (open access)

Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations

This report discusses the "oil-for-food" program (OFFP) as the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program, in operation from December 1996 until March 2003, is detailed.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M. & Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety Issues in the 109th Congress (open access)

Food Safety Issues in the 109th Congress

This report provides an overview of federal food safety activities and issues of concern to Congress
Date: February 4, 2005
Creator: Vogt, Donna U.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Food Safety Issues in the 108th Congress

This report provides an overview of federal food safety activities and issues of concern to congress.
Date: August 16, 2004
Creator: Vogt, Donna U.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (P.L. 111-353) (open access)

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (P.L. 111-353)

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Date: February 18, 2011
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local Food Systems: Selected Farm Bill and Other Federal Programs (open access)

Local Food Systems: Selected Farm Bill and Other Federal Programs

This report examines the federal support of local food systems, such as sales of locally-produced foods which comprise a small but growing part of U.S. agricultural sales.
Date: February 5, 2016
Creator: Johnson, Renée & Cowan, Tadlock
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local Food Systems: Selected Farm Bill and Other Federal Programs (open access)

Local Food Systems: Selected Farm Bill and Other Federal Programs

This report discusses how locally produced food systems and farmers are impacted and supported by federal programs including marketing and promotion, business assistance and research, rural and community development programs, and nutrition assistance programs.
Date: March 20, 2015
Creator: Johnson, Renée & Cowan, Tadlock
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-For-Food Program, International Sanctions, and Illicit Trade (open access)

Iraq: Oil-For-Food Program, International Sanctions, and Illicit Trade

This report discusses the "oil-for-food" program (OFFP) as the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program, in operation from December 1996 until March 2003, is detailed.
Date: October 27, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Domestic Food Assistance: Legislative Issues in the 110th Congress (open access)

Domestic Food Assistance: Legislative Issues in the 110th Congress

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Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Domestic Food Assistance: The Farm Bill and Other Legislation in the 110th Congress (open access)

Domestic Food Assistance: The Farm Bill and Other Legislation in the 110th Congress

This report covers issues and legislative changes addressed in the farm bill, legislative changes included in the FY2008 Agriculture appropriations measure (included in the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act; P.L. 110-161), and proposed legislation that involves programs and activities that are normally not part of the farm bill (e.g., child nutrition program proposals).
Date: August 22, 2008
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library