Childhood Hunger Policy Analysis

In the past there has been different policy addressing the childhood hunger issue that our country has been through. This section will explain how past policies have impacted the new policy we have addressing the child hunger In the United States. There has been several programs created to provide food to family so that they can provide food for their children, but this program haven't necessarily done what it needs to be done to end childhood hunger in the United States. According to (nokidhungry.org) 2016, about 70 percents of food benefits goes to family with children, this mean that this program has a huge impact on a kids health and if it become obese. Snap policies hasn't help much families who can not provide for themselves. According to (Snaptohealth.org, 2010) The program snap started in 1939 and it ended in 1943, the government could expect that, because the country was going through a good economic raise, and because of that everybody was doing doing well economically and getting enough money to feed their families. Even though the rate of unemployment was decreasing, there was still people who were without jobs and this was their only way of income to feed their families and the government decided to closed. Back in the days in 1939 (Snaptohealth.org, 2010) when this …show more content…
There were some crucial changes in 2011, became the most longer federal program related to food, but also that people could buy luxury food or soft drinks. In 2014 president Obama signed a bill and passed a law where people cannot buy hot food, alcohol or tobacco. These are very necessary dates to bear in mind, because it demonstrates how snap has changed over the year and how different policy has made the program what it is on the present day. According to (Snaphealth.org 2016) there was an invesment of 3.5 million dollars to run the program across the United