The nation’s first national food stamp program was introduced during the Great Depression, at a time when farms nationwide had a bounty of crops, but millions of Americans were too poor to put food on their table. The idea, credited to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, was to bring that excess food to the needy; customers could purchase $1 of orange stamps, redeemable for any food at participating stores, and receive 50 cents worth of blue stamps …
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