Items Tagged with 'TFP'

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he’s against a proposal to be more restrictive with future rewrites of the Thrifty Food Plan, the calculation used to determine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Congressional Republicans are weighing how to rein in the soaring cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and may use a recent GAO report to argue for restricting how USDA determines future updates.

In this opinion piece, Stephanie K. Goodwin, Ph. D., with Danone North America and Anne MacMillan with Invariant discuss the importance of strategic dialogue across a diverse set of stakeholders to effectively address systemic problems and inequities in the food system.