Announcement
2011 Grant Awardees
The RIDGE Center @ the SRDC is pleased to formally announce its first ever slate of doctoral dissertation grantees:
- Michael Burke
- Kristen Capogrossi
- Anthony G. Murray
We are pleased to announce the following individuals were awarded research grants as part of the 2011 RIDGE Center for Targeted Studies competitive grants program. These projects have launched and are slated to be completed fall 2012.
- Allison DeMarco
- Sonya Jones, Holly Harring
and Karen Pendleton
- Angela Liese, Sarah Battersby and Bethany Bell
- Gayaneh Kyureghian and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.
Learn more about these awarded opportunities for 2012.
The Economic Research Service provides Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics to stimulate innovative research on food and nutrition assistance issues. The SRDC is one of two partnership institutions.
Free webinar offers latest rural wealth creation research
Because a short-term focus on creating jobs or increasing income is insufficient to generate sustainable rural development or achieve a lasting reduction in rural poverty, a focus on creating and maintaining wealth offers the potential to achieve more lasting rural prosperity. A free webinar, "Rural Wealth Creation: Concepts, Strategies, and Measures," set for Tuesday, May 1, presents research recent findings that seek to understand how different types of wealth, including human, natural, social, and other forms of capital, can be conceptualized and measured, or how they interact to determine the dynamics of rural economic development. USDA Economic Research Service researchers will discuss what wealth is in a broad sense, why wealth creation is important for rural development, how it can be created in rural communities, and how its accumulation and effects can be measured.
RIDGE Center for Targeted Studies @ the SRDC now accepting 2012 research grant proposals
The RIDGE Center for Targeted Studies @ the SRDC, in partnership with USDA Economic Research Service, has released its 2012 request for proposals for both the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program and the Food Assistance and Nutrition Challenges in Rural America Grant Program.
SNAP usage increased 15 percent post-recession
The number of Americans turning to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, has substantially increased since the recession began and has continued to climb as many Americans have struggled with the economic hardships of the post-recession, weak economy, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
Dynamics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation in the Mid-2000s
Decision Demographics, along with the guidance of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, submitted this report regarding participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP is the cornerstone of America's food assistance policy. In fiscal year 2010, an average of over 40 million individuals received SNAP benefits each month. The program caseload is not static; each month, new individuals enter the program while some participants exit.
Determinants of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Entry and Exit in the Mid-2000s
With the guidance of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Decision Demographics submitted this report, which reviews the factors driving participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Participation in SNAP in any month is the net result of people entering and exiting the program—what is often referred to as program "dynamics." These can be characterized descriptively by examining rates of program entry, how long participants spend on the program, and how often those that exit the program re-enter it.
USDA introduces online tool for
locating 'food deserts'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) recently released an Internet-based mapping tool that pinpoints the location of U.S. "food deserts," a low-income census tract where either a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store. It also provides data on population characteristics of these census tracts where residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious foods.
