Food Assistance: USDA's Multiprogram Approach (Letter Report, 11/24/93,
GAO/RCED-94-33).

About 39 million people receive federal food assistance through the
Agriculture Department's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service.  In fiscal
year 1992, the Service and state agencies jointly ran 14 programs that
provided food assistance at a federal cost of about $33 billion--about
58 percent of USDA's total budget; about 63 percent of this went to
children.  This report provides information on (1) USDA's food
assistance programs; (2) the strengths and weaknesses of the current
multiprogram approach; and (3) alternative approaches to delivering food
assistance identified by federal, state, and other officials.

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 REPORTNUM:  RCED-94-33
     TITLE:  Food Assistance: USDA's Multiprogram Approach
      DATE:  11/24/93
   SUBJECT:  Food relief programs
             State-administered programs
             Federal/state relations
             Disadvantaged persons
             Public administration
             Child care programs
             Interagency relations
             Federal agency reorganization
             Welfare services
             Policy evaluation
IDENTIFIER:  Food Stamp Program
             USDA Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance Program
             FNS Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
             National School Lunch Program
             National School Breakfast Program
             USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program
             Summer Food Service Program for Children
             Special Milk Program for Children
             Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and 
             Children
             WIC
             WIC Farmers Market Program
             Commodity Supplemental Food Program
             USDA Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program
             USDA Adult Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
             Food Distribution Plan for Charitable Institutions
             FNS Nutrition Program for the Elderly
             
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