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About Food Stamps Day

United States
EVENT NAME:
Food Stamps Day (1959)
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Anniversaries , Food
Health , Civil Rights
Politics , United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Sep 11, 2024
Ends: Sep 11, 2024
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It is a common misconception that the US Food Stamps Program for low-income Americans came about during the New Deal of the Roosevelt era. It took longer.

A congressional bill created the program on September 11, 1959, making surplus food available to people. The Eisenhower administration signed the two-year experiment into law on September 21, 1959. However, the program was not implemented. It would take an Executive Order from President John F. Kennedy to get the ball rolling by creating stamps and removing the requirement that food comes from national surplus reserves. Finally, the Johnson administration, in 1964, would make it a permanent US Government program and expand it to 40 countries struggling with food insecurity overseas.

Today this program is referred to as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and is primarily administered by private contractors through the Department of Agriculture.

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Dec 17, 2023

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