Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

…Dependent Children [AFDC], and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps), while others have been available to most or all people independent of means (social security and Medicare). Legally mandated employer-provided benefits have included workers’ compensation and unpaid leave

Today it’s called SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). When it was first piloted during the Great Depression and then formally launched during U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, it was known as the Food Stamp Program (FSP). Regardless of what it is called, the program helps feed…