National Studies
Multi-State Studies
State Studies
Non-U.S. Studies
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National Studies
Empty Shelves: 1998 Survey of U.S. Food Banks. A report by Congressman Tony P. Hall. February 1998. |
Food Insufficiency Exists in the United States: Results from the Third National health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANESIII). American Journal of Public Health. March 1998. |
Hunger 1997: The Faces and Facts. America's Second Harvest. March 1998. |
Snapshots of America's Families - Income and Hardship: Food Concerns and Affordability. The Urban Institute. January 1999. |
Parish Social Ministries 1999 Welfare Reform Survey. Catholic Charities USA. March 1999. |
Extended Measures of Well-Being: Meeting Basic Needs. U.S. Census Bureau. June 1999. |
How Families That Left Welfare Are Doing: A National Picture. The Urban Institute. August 1999. |
Current and Former Welfare Recipients: How Do They Differ? The Urban Institute. November 1999. |
Homelessness: Programs and the People the Serve. The Urban Institute. February 2000. |
Racial and Ethnic Disparities - Key Findings from the National Survey of America's Families. The Urban Institute. February 2000. |
Family Economic Well-Being - Findings from the National Survey of America's Families. The Urban Institute. October 2000. |
Catholic Charities USA's 1999 Annual Survey. Catholic Charities USA. December 2000. |
Families Struggling to Make It in the Workforce: A Post Welfare Report. Children's Defense Fund. December 2000. |
Hardship among Children of Immigrants: Findings from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families. The Urban Institute. February 2001. |
How Are Families That Left Welfare Doing? A Comparison of Early and Recent Welfare Leavers. The Urban Institute. April 2001. |
National Survey on Poverty in America. National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. May 2001. |
Economic Inequality Seen as Rising, Boom Bypasses Poor. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. June 2001. |
When Work Just Isn't Enough - Measuring Hardships Faced by Families After Moving From Welfare to Work. Economic Policy Institute. June 2001. |
Hardships in America - The Real Story of Working Families. Economic Policy Institute. July 2001.
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How Are Families Who Left Welfare Doing Over Time? A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Welfare Leavers. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Economic Policy Review. September 2001. |
Hunger in America 2001. America's Second Harvest. November 2001. |
The Emergency Food Assistance System - Findings from the Provider Survey. Volume I: Executive Summary. Volume II: Final Report. Volume III: Survey Methodology. Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. October 2002. |
What the World Thinks in 2002. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. December 2002. |
A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in American Cities 2002. (Annual Report) U.S. Conference of Mayors. December 2002. |
Use of Food Pantries by Households With Children Rose During the Late 1990s. FoodReview. Winter 2002. |
Choices. America's Second Harvest. Issue Brief No. 1. Winter 2002. |
Rural Hunger. America's Second Harvest. Issue Brief No. 2. February 2003.
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Hunger: An Emerging Issue - Results and Analysis of Recent National Public Opinion Polling. Alliance to End Hunger. June 2003. |
The Emergency Food Assistance System - Findings from the Client Survey. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. July 2003. |
Dynamics of Poverty and Food Sufficiency. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. September 2003. |
Homelessness and Food Insecurity. C. Gundersen, L. Weinreb, C. Wehler, and D. Hosmer. Journal of Housing Economics. Vol. 12, Issue 3: 250-272. September 2003. |
Women's Job Loss and Material Hardship. Institute for Women's Policy Research. October 2003. |
Using a Concurrent Events Approach to Understand Social Support and Food Insecurity Among Elders. E. Frongillo, P. Valois, and W.S. Wolfe. Family Economics and Nutrition Review. Vol. 15, No.1: 25-32. December 2003. |
Diet and food insufficiency among Hispanic youths: acculturation and socioeconomic factors in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. R. Mazur, G. Marquis, H. Jensen. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Vol. 78, Issue 6: 1120-7. December 2003. |
A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in American Cities 2003. (Annual Report) U.S. Conference of Mayors. December 2003. |
Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Well-Being. The Urban Institute. March 2004. |
Trends in Parents' Economic Hardship. The Urban Institute. March 2004. |
Maternal Employment and Children's Nutrition: Volume II, Other Nutrition-Related Outcomes. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. June 2004. |
Communities in Crisis: A Survey of Hunger and Homelessness in America. National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness (NSCAHH). February 2005. |
Ashiabi, G. (March 2005). Household food insecurity and children's school management. Journal of Children and Poverty. 11(1), 3-17. |
Sharkey, J.R., Schoenberg, N.E. (August 2005). Prospective Study of Black-White Differences in Food Insufficiency Among Homebound Elders. Journal of Aging and Health. 17(4), 507-527. |
Multi-State Studies
Poverty Amid Plenty: The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform (includes CA, FL, IL, MA, MI, NJ, OH, PA, TX). NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. April 1999. |
Self-Reported Concern About Food Security - Eight States, 1996-1998 (includes KS, LA, MD, MT, PA, SC, VA, MO). Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). October 20, 2000. |
A Cross-State Examination of Families Leaving Welfare: Findings from the ASPE-Funded Leavers Studies (includes AZ, IL, WA). Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. August 2000 (Revised November 2000). |
A Comparison of Demographic Variables, Food/Nutrient Intakes, Level of Food Security, and Food/Nutrient Changes with Intervention Among Food Stamp and Non-Food Stamp Recipients in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Pennsylvania State University, University of Tennessee, and Virginia Tech University. December 2000. |
Initial Synthesis Report of the Findings from ASPE's "Leavers" Grants. The Urban Institute for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. January 2001. |
Welfare to What? Part II. National Coalition for the Homeless and the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness. April 2001. |
Food Insufficiency and the Use of Food Assistance Programs in the South. Southern Rural Development Center. July 2001. |
Food Stamps Out Hunger - Hunger in the West and What Governors and Congress Can Do About It. Northwest Federation of Community Organizations. August 2001. |
Welfare Reform: How Do We Define Success? NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. November 2001. |
Security Matters: How Instability in Health Insurance Puts U.S. Workers at Risk The Commonwealth Fund. December 2001. |
Welfare to Work: What Have We Learned? The Joyce Foundation. April 2002. |
How Do Marriage, Cohabitation, and Single Parenthood Affect the Material Hardships of Families with Children? The Urban Institute. July 2002. |
The Kids Are Alright? Children's Well-Being and the Rise in Cohabitation. The Urban Institute. July 2002. |
HOPE VI Panel Study: Baseline Report. The Urban Institute. September 2002. |
State Studies
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Hunger 1997: The Faces & Facts Arizona State Report. America's Second Harvest and the Association of Arizona Food Banks. March 1998. |
Arizona Cash Assistance Exit Study. Arizona Department of Economic Security. January 2000. |
California
Risk for Hunger Among Women, by Age; California, 1997. State of California, Department of Health Services, Office of Women's Health. Fall 1999. |
A Report on the Impacts of the Implementation of the Five Month Time Limit on General Relief Cash Benefits in Los Angeles County. Shelter Partnership, Inc. April 1999. |
From War on Poverty to War on Welfare: The Impact of Welfare Reform on the Lives of Immigrant Women. Equal Rights Advocates' Immigrant Women and Welfare Project. April 1999. |
The Impact of Time Limits on General Relief Recipients in Los Angeles County: Survey Findings. UCLA, Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, and the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty. April 1999. |
Hunger in Sonoma County: A Comprehensive Study of the People Seeking Food Assistance. Redwood Empire Food Bank and the University of California Cooperative Extension. November 1999. |
Hunger in Mendocino County: A Comprehensive Study of the People Seeking Food Assistance. Redwood Empire Food Bank and the University of California Cooperative Extension. April 2000. |
Breaking Barriers: A Road to Improved Food Access. Sacramento City/County Hunger Commission. August 2000. |
Hunger in Lake County: A Comprehensive Study of the People Seeking Food Assistance. Redwood Empire Food Bank and the University of California Cooperative Extension. October 2000. |
Hunger in Napa County: A Comprehensive Study of the People Seeking Food Assistance. Redwood Empire Food Bank and the University of California Cooperative Extension. November 2000. |
California Women's Health Survey Numbers 11 and 12. California Department of Public Health. Summer 2002. |
Food Security and Nutritional Outcomes of Preschool-Age Mexican-American Children. LL Kaiser, HR Melgar-Quinonez, CL Lamp, MC Johns, JM Sutherlin, & JO Harwood. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Vol. 102, No. 7: 924-929. July 2002. |
Faces of Hunger: A Study of Emergency Food Recipients. Community Food Bank. Fall 2003. |
Colorado
Connecticut
Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study: Three-Month Survey Results. Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. September 1998. |
Connecticut Association for Human Services 1999 Emergency Food Provider Survey. The Connecticut Association for Human Services. May 1999. |
Connecticut Association for Human Services 1999 Emergency Food Site User Survey. The Connecticut Association for Human Services. May 1999. |
Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Hispanics in Hartford, Connecticut: Implications for Public Health Policy. Human Organization. Fall 2000. |
Food Stamps Are Associated with Food Security and Dietary Intake of Inner-City Preschoolers from Hartford, Connecticut. Journal of Nutrition. November 2000. |
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
When Families Leave Welfare Behind - First Survey Findings. Institute for Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Springfield and the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1999. |
Living With Welfare Reform: A Survey of Low-Income Families in Illinois. Work, Welfare and Families and the Chicago Urban League with the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. January 2000. |
Illinois Study of Former TANF Clients, Final Report. Institute for Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Springfield and the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. August 2000. |
Families Hardest Hit: Effects of Welfare Reform on Homeless Families. Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, in collaboration with the National Welfare Monitoring and Advocacy Partnership. September 2000. |
Work, Welfare, and Well-Being: An Independent Look at Welfare Reform in Illinois. The University Consortium on Welfare Reform. November 2000. |
Food Stamp Survey. Anti-Hunger Action, a collaboration of the Illinois Hunger Coalition and the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation. December 2000. |
Putting Food on the Table After Welfare Reform. Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. October 2002. |
Iowa
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
1999 Emergency Service Provider Survey. Center for Poverty Solutions. January 2000. |
Financial Difficulty in Acquiring Food Among Elderly Disabled Women: Results from the Women's Health and Aging Study. American Journal of Public Health. January 2001. |
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Philabundance Agency Survey on Community Needs. Philabundance. June 1999. |
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Meeting Necessity: A Statewide Survey of Food Pantries, Clothing Closets, Soup Kitchens, Shelters, Health Care, and Emergency Assistance Providers in West Virginia. West Virginia Economic Justice Project. October 1999. |
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Wyoming Hunger Study. Northwest Community Action Programs of Wyoming (NOWCAP). November 1998. |
Non-U.S. Studies
Canada
A Glimpse of Child Hunger in Canada. Applied Research Branch, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada. October 1998. |
A Survey of Food Problems Experienced by Toronto Street Youth. M Antoniades and V Tarasuk. Canadian Journal of Public Health. Vol. 89, No. 6: 371-375. November - December 1998. |
Characterization of Household Food Insecurity in Quebec: Food and Feelings. AM Hamelin, M Beaudry, and JP Habicht. Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 54, No. 1: 119-132. January 2002. |
Homeless "squeegee kids": Food Insecurity and Daily Survival. N Dachner and V Tarasuk. Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 54: 1039-1049. April 2002. |
Food Insecurity of Low-Income Lone Mothers and their Children in Atlantic Canada. L McIntyre, NT Glanville, S Officer, B Anderson, KD Raine, and JB Dayle. Canadian Journal of Public Health. Vol. 96, No. 6: 411-415. November/December 2002. |
Do Low-Income Lone Mothers Compromise Their Nutrition to Feed Their Children? L McIntyre, NT Glanville, KD Raine, JB Dayle, B Anderson and N Battaglia. Canadian Medical Association Journal. Vol. 168, No. 6: 686-91. March 2003. |
Obesity and hunger among Mexican-Indian migrant children on the US-Mexico border. A Jimenez-Cruz, M Bacardi-Gascon & AA Spindler. International Journal of Obesity. Vol. 27: 740-747. June 2003. |
Normén, L., Chan, K., Braitstein, P., Anema, A., Bondy, G., Montaner, J.S.G., Hogg, R.S. (April 2005). Food Insecurity and Hunger are Prevalent among HIV-Positive Individuals in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Nutrition. 135(4), 820-825. |
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