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- Title
Food, Health and Welfare in the Long Twentieth Century: Introduction.
- Authors
BALLANTYNE, DAVID T.
- Abstract
Spanning from the 1890s to the 1980s, this special issue presents six essays addressing complementary topics relating to food, health and welfare during the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the late twentieth century, three key periods of transition in American welfare provision. Beyond seeking to reduce program expenditures, his administration further denied the role of the federal government in eliminating hunger among food stamp recipients. These politicians well understood the medical rationales for reducing malnutrition and also their states' often racially fraught welfare politics, leading several to present antihunger spending as a way of reducing future welfare expenses.
- Subjects
TWENTIETH century; FOOD stamps; FOOD prices; FOOD relief; PRESIDENTIAL administrations; POLITICAL elites
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875823000014