Excerpts: This report is an evaluation of the Pilot Food Stamp Projects now being operated in eight economically depressed areas of the United States. These projects were Inaugurated by the Department, the first beginning on May 29, 1961, at the request of the President. The report relates the administrative experience gained in the operation of the pilot projects and presents the results of a series of special studies made to determine attitudes about the program and to measure its economic and dietary impacts. The report also discusses other considerations important to policy making. Among these are the longer range implications for our food and agricultural objectives and for welfare policies and programs; certain cost considerations; and, if the program were to be expanded, the desirable scope and pace of such an expansion.
