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General Accounting Office. 1990. Views on temporary emergency food assistance program and commodities for soup kitchens: Testimony. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 13 pp.

Annotation: This statement before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, U.S. Senate, discusses the effectiveness of two programs of the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988: the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program and a new program to provide commodities to soup kitchens or food banks, based on comments of officials in certain local recipient agencies and of individual recipients.

Contact: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20548, Telephone: (202) 512-3000 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.gao.gov Available from the website. Document Number: GAO/T-RCED-90-69.

Keywords: Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Food banks, Soup kitchens, Surveys

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