Charts, graphs, and tables included: Food Program Trends, 1936-94; Allocation of Federal Food Assistance Spending; Food Stamp Program Participation, Poverty, and Unemployment; Food Stamp Program Error Rate Characteristics; Per Person Food Spending by Income Quintile; Percent of Income Spent on Food By Income Quintile; Food Budget Shares, Food Stamp Households; Program Modification Impacts Food Spending; Impact on Farm Program Costs; Program Modification Impacts Employment; Alternative Scenarios — Changes in Jobs; Alternative Scenarios — Changes in Output; Direct Impacts on Agriculture of Alternative Food Assistance Reform Scenarios: Farm Price, Farm Income, and Farm Program Costs; Direct Impacts of Alternative Food Assistance Reform Scenarios on Food and Nonfood Spending; Food Spending Effects of Food Assistance Supplementation and Block Grant Slippage. Poverty Status of Food Stamp Households Distribution of Food Stamp Program Participants Food Stamp Allotment Maximum Benefit Level