Presented at: The Status of Women: Facing the Facts, Forging the Future, Women’s Policy Research Conference, Washington, DC, June 2000

This paper reports the results of research and analysis by Census Bureau staff. It has undergone a more limited review than official Census Bureau publications. This paper is released to inform interested parties of research and encourage the discussion.

After reform of welfare in 1996 many people continued to need cash assistance, particularly Food Stamps (FS). This paper compares individuals who received FS over the period 1996 – 1999 with those who left the FS rolls. To investigate and understand the relationship concerning continued participation in the FS program data from waves one, four, seven, and ten of the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) are used to derive descriptive statistics and a logit regression model.