1976 – Reagan Uses Racist Tropes to Describe Food Stamp Participants Dur... In a 1976 Fort Lauderdale rally, President Ronald Reagan used racially coded rhetoric to undermin... Learn More
1975 – Funding Shortfalls in Permanent WIC Program Disproportionately Im... The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) became a perman... Learn More
1973 – Congress Expands Food Stamp Program Nationwide In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act into law, whi... Learn More
1972 –WIC Pilot Criticized for Culturally Inappropriate Food Package In 1972, Congress authorized the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and C... Learn More
1969 – Florida Delays Processing Requests by Counties to Administer Food... In early 1969, Congress’s Select Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs conducted an on-si... Learn More
1968 – “Hunger in America” Documentary and New Study Reveal Appalling Ma... CBS aired a special news report called “Hunger in America” in 1968, which depicted a Black infant... Learn More
1967 – Researchers Call Starvation of Black Children in the South a Nati... Researchers from the Field Foundation, who were commissioned to conduct a study on the impact of ... Learn More
1966 – Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Spurs Expansion of National Sch... Congress enacted the School Breakfast Program on a pilot basis in the Child Nutrition Act of 1966... Learn More
1964 – Food Stamps Become Permanent Federal Program Three years after then-President John F. Kennedy authorized food stamps on a pilot basis, the Foo... Learn More
1961 – Florida Not Among Test Areas as Kennedy Resurrects Food Stamps on... Despite occasional attempts to resurrect a food stamp program, the concept of food stamps lay dor... Learn More
