Food Prices Before and After Distribution of Welfare Checks, Low-Income Areas, Seven Cities, 1969 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Food Prices Before and After Distribution of Welfare Checks, Low-Income Areas, Seven Cities, 1969

This report presents the results of a survey of prices of identical food items before and after issuance of welfare checks in low-income areas. A] These areas were randomly selected in seven cities: Washington, D.C., Jackson, Miss., Boston, Mass., Newark, n.j., Detroit, Mich., Cleveland, Ohio, and Oakland, Calif. In total, 261 stores were shopped and purchases made on the same day of the week before and after welfare checks were distributed. The surveys were conducted during spring and summer months of 1969.

Four types of analyses were made: (1) variations in prices paid for identical items purchased 1 week apart, (2) factors contributing to price changes, (3) cost of identical market baskets of food, and (4) miscellaneous factors affecting the total grocery bill. These analyses are discussed in the following paragraphs along with a brief resume of the incidence of items being out of stock the second week.

Because of some major differences in the seven cities, the findings of each are presented, followed by a description of the methodology used in the conduct of the survey. The report concludes with a statistical analysis of the data and a summary, by type of store, of data from each city surveyed.

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