Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat

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This groundbreaking book, now updated and expanded with a new epilogue and a foreword by Marion Nestle, explains how the New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for poor people, became a program designed to rise the incomes of commercial farmers. Author Janet Poppendieck also takes a broader look at how the New Deal years were formative for food assistance policies in subsequent administrations and evaluates the performance-or lack of performance-of in-kind relief programs. Book jacket