Food Insecurity Transitions and Changes in Employment and Earnings.

Introduction: Many low-income U.S. households experience food security changes over time, but little is known about how labor market transitions contribute to these changes.

Continued Participation in Congregate Meal Programs: The Role of Geographic Access to Food.

The Nutrition Services Program is the largest program that provides prepared meals to older adults in need. However, little is known about the factors associated with participants' continued receipt of meals. This study uses longitudinal nationally representative survey data and residential location information to examine the factors associated with continuing to receive congregate meals ( = 383).

Food Insecurity is Directly Associated with the Use of Health Services for Adverse Health Events among Older Adults.

Background: In 2018, 14.3 million US households experienced food insecurity, which has been linked to negative health outcomes such as depression and anxiety, diabetes, and hypertension. This connection is particularly important for older adults, who are at greater risk than younger adults for developing certain health conditions.

Randomized Controlled Trial of Healthy Harlem's Get Fit Program: An After-School Intervention for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in the Harlem Children's Zone.

Although the increases in overweight and obesity observed for several decades have appeared to have leveled off, the prevalence of overweight and obesity remains exceptionally high among children of color. This article estimates the effect of Healthy Harlem's Get Fit-a 12-week after-school program aimed at helping students improve physical activity and eating habits-on BMI and weight status of adolescents. Participants were 436 students who had overweight or obesity in 12 Harlem Children's Zone after-school programs in New York.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Emergency Food Pantry Use.

Objective: To determine the association between Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and pantry use.

Design: A pretest-posttest design that compared pantry use at program enrollment and after 6 months of participation while controlling for household, economic, and geographic characteristics.

Setting: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Food Security Survey: a national telephone survey of SNAP new-entrant households conducted in 2011-2012.

Association of participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program and psychological distress.

Objectives: We assessed whether households' participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was associated with improvements in well-being, as indicated by lower rates of psychological distress.

Methods: We used longitudinal data for 3146 households in 30 states, collected between October 2011 and September 2012 for the SNAP Food Security survey, the largest longitudinal national survey of SNAP participants to date. Analyses compared households within days of program entry to the same households approximately 6 months later.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation is associated with an increase in household food security in a national evaluation.

Background: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides nutrition assistance benefits to low-income families in an effort to reduce hunger and improve health and well-being. Because 1 in 7 Americans participate in the program each month, policymakers need to know whether the program is meeting these objectives effectively.

Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the association between SNAP participation and household food security using recent data from the largest national survey of the food security of SNAP participants to date.

Supplemental nutrition assistance program participation and child food security.

Objective: This article investigates the association between Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and child food security by using data from the largest national survey of the food security of SNAP participants to date.

Methods: The analysis used a survey of nearly 3000 households with children and a quasi-experimental research design that consisted of 2 sets of comparisons. Using a cross-sectional sample, we compared information collected from SNAP households within days of program entry with information collected from a contemporaneous sample of SNAP households that had participated for ∼6 months.