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Field Reports

Improving Food Stamps in Alameda County and Beyond

Kevin Anderson, Emerson Fellow
Published 2006

Oakland, California

Improving Food Stamps in Alameda County and Beyond is based on an in-depth analysis of the Alameda County Social Service Agency’s internal processes and how they can best interface with the external food stamp outreach efforts of local community based organizations.  The report presents a series of cost-effective and viable recommendations for improving food stamp application processing in Alameda County and across California.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Domestic Federal Nutrition Programs, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps - Advocates (including legal advocates), Community Members, Policymakers, SNAP/Food Stamp Recipients

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Kevin Anderson

Emerson Fellow

Kevin graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University in 2005, receiving a BA in political science and legal studies.  He wrote honors theses for both majors: the first paper posited a legal and political solution to the Iraqi debt crisis and the second paper examined the evolution of U.S. foreign aid programs. Kevin interned with the Northwestern Law School and Center on Wrongful Convictions, the Office of Illinois Senator Richard J. Durbin, and the Office of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

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