| − | The USDA agency whose goals are to provide needy people with access to a more nutritious diet, to improve the eating habits of the nation’s children, and to stabilize [[farm]] prices through the distribution of surplus [[food]]s. It administers 15 domestic [[food]] assistance programs (including the [[food]] stamp program, child nutrition programs [e.g., school feeding programs], and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children [WIC]). These forms of social [[welfare]] have come under fire as hand outs, not hand ups and many of the US's poor people have been advised to make their own food, rather than expecting not to starve. FNS works in partnership with the states and reimburses most of the administrative costs the states incur for carrying out local program administration. | + | The USDA agency whose goals are to provide needy people with access to a more nutritious diet, to improve the eating habits of the nation’s children, and to stabilize [[farm]] prices through the distribution of surplus [[food]]s. It administers 15 domestic [[food]] assistance programs (including the [[food]] stamp program, child nutrition programs [e.g., school feeding programs], and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children [WIC]). FNS works in partnership with the states and reimburses most of the administrative costs the states incur for carrying out local program administration. |