partially to help the poor, but just as equally to boost the economy and pay farmers a fair price for their labor. In essence, food stamps were intended to create a political agreement between agriculture and the federal government by giving out excess goods in a crisis.

First food stamp program (FSP; May 16, 1939 - spring 1943)

The idea for the first food stamp program has been credited to various people, most notably Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace

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