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THE FOOD STAMP ISSUE
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other welfare programs. But
for each dollar’s worth of
food stamps they received,
they spent as much as 50
cents on food. The liberalized
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program, says the ERS
study, has resulted in ~an
even higher ratio.
Two cents to the dollar
Looking at nationwide food
expenditures, about 2 cents
of ever dollar are generated
by the food stamp program.
Cost to taxpayers comes to
somewhat over $3 billion a
year for the more than 13
million people enrolled.
What do they buy with food
stamps? According to the
ERS study, food stamp
recipients use a large portion
of their expanded buying
power to buy more red
meats, particularly ground
beet and lower cost beef
cuts. Other big items are
bakery products and fruits
and vegetables. The share of
each food dollar breaks down
like so among the major food
groups: :
Meat group (includes eggs,
dry beans and peas, nuts,
and meat mixtures) $0.38
Milk group (includes milk,
cream, cheese, frozen
desserts) .13
Vegetable and fruit group .20
Bread-cereal group .12
Other food (fats, oils,
sweets, etc.) .17
With red meats com
prising such a high
proportion of food stamp
dollars, ERS researchers did
some further analysis.
Stamps for meat
It was estimated that
roughly 15 cents of each
dollar’s worth of bonus food
stamps resulted in added
spending for red meats.
Compared with total U.S.
spending on red meats,
bonus food stamps came in
for $3Ol million in 1972
against $35 billion for the
Nation as a whole, or less
than 1 percent of the total
market. However, red meat
bought with bonus food
stamps was responsible for a
larger share of the year-to
year expansion in demand
for red meat in 1971-72.
Bonus stamps may have
accounted for over 5 percent
of the total expansion in red
meat spending.
In general, food stamps
can’t claim credit for a
significant portion of the rise
in total consumer ex
penditures for meat since
1969, the ERS report says.
On the other hand, the ex
panded issuance of food
stamps has enabled low
income families to afford
meat they could not buy
before.
Marketing costs continue
to take the biggest bite from
our food dollar. Of the $132.2
billion Americas shelled out
for farm foods last year,
almost two-thirds went to
pay the marketing bill.
The bill for marketing
farm foods tallied $82.3
billion in 1973. This was 5
percent more than in the
previous year but was about
the same as the average
annual increase for the past
11 years.
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