2013 IRP RIDGE Center News, Events, & People
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News
- Senate Rejects Bid to Turn Food Stamp Program Over to States, Cut Spending (5/22/13)
- Connecticut Senator Murphy Takes Food Stamp Challenge (5/21/13)
- Study Shows Food Stamp Users Eat Same Diet as Everyone Else (5/17/13)
- Some cuts likely for food stamps (5/8/2013)
- Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Highlights Improvements to the National School Lunch Program (5/1/13)
- IRP RIDGE News: Spring-Summer 2013 issue (5/1/13)
- USDA Expands SNAP Access at Farmers Markets (4/30/13)
- Applications invited for IRP RIDGE Visiting Food Assistance Scholar Program for 2013–2014 (deadline 6/28/2013)
- The SNAP Program in Florida (4/23/2013)
- Obesity less likely when kids had discounted or free meals with higher nutritional value, study finds (4/9/13)
- Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Outlines USDA Efforts to Raise a Healthier Generation of Americans; Highlights Efforts to Improve School Meals (4/5/13)
- SNAP Recipients Flood Local Markets (4/1/13)
- Op-ed: Eliminate the Ineffective SNAP Employment and Training Program (3/21/13)
- In Obesity Epidemic, Poverty Is an Ignored Contagion (3/16/13)
- Kids' Consumption of Sugared Beverages Linked to Higher Caloric Intake of Food (3/12/13)
- Does This Ad Make Me Fat? (op-ed) 3/8/13)
- IRP RIDGE News: Spring 2013 issue (3/8/13)
- Maternal Diet Important Predictor of Severity for Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) (3/4/13)
- Hard Lessons of the Food Stamp Challenge (2/26/13)
- Smarter Lunchrooms Make Lunch Choices Child's Play (2/22/13)
- Taking a New Look at an Urban Area's Access to Healthier Foods (2/19/13)
- SNAP Benefits Will Be Cut for All Participants in November 2013 (2/8/13)
- Montgomery Officials Try Eating for $5 a Day (2/4/13)
- The Relationship Between SNAP and Work Among Low-Income Households (1/29/13)
- USDA Announces Actions to Enhance Integrity in America's Most Critical Nutrition Assistance Program (1/24/13)
- Obesity Epidemic: Response of U.S. Schools of Public Health (1/25/13)
- Increase in Uptake of Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2011 (1/17/13)
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities releases state-by-state SNAP fact sheets (1/14/13)
Events
- IRP Spring workshop, University of Wisconsin–Madison, (April 19, 2013)
- ERS RIDGE Conference, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities Conference Facility, Washington, DC (October 10, 2013)