The 2020 Tufts/UConn Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Conference, held virtually on October 14, will feature ...

My colleagues at Tufts University and I are happy to announce that we are now requesting proposals from WIC State Agencies or a consortium o...

The  Tufts/UConn RIDGE Program  seeks to support innovative economic research on domestic nutrition assistance programs and to broaden a ne...

Please share this week's announcement with potential researchers: The Tufts/UConn RIDGE Center seeks to support innovative econom...

USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has posted a document explaining the contingency plan (.pdf) for nutrition assistance in the li...

A Choices Magazine theme issue released today explores the economics of food deserts. Guest editors Dave D. Weatherspoon, Shelly Ver Ploe...

A Tufts press release last week describes recent research by Ann Collins, Meena Fernandes and Anne Wolf at Abt Associates, and myself, whic...

USDA's report on WIC this week estimates that the program leads to about $4.6 billion in annual food spending. Of this, perhaps 26% is ...

As Congress moves to bail out some of the largest corporations in order to prop up the economy, Main Street is jumping on the bandwagon to a...

Instead of lecturing low-income mothers about nutrition science, the Touching Hearts, Touching Minds site from the Massachusetts WIC progr...

Barbara Vauthier's selective and tightly written Foodlinks America newsletter from the TEFAP Alliance now seems to be in blog format , ...

Most public attention focuses on the major multi-billion-dollar USDA programs for crop subsidies, nutrition assistance, and conservation. B...