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AbstractChallenges exist when making reliable and valid estimates of civilian mortality due to war. This article first discusses a framework used to examine war's impact on civilians and then considers challenges common to each statistical approach taken to estimate civilian casualties. It examines the different approaches that have been used to estimate civilian casualties associated with the recent fighting in Iraq to date and compares the results of different approaches. The author concludes by proposing that after fighting has ceased, other approaches to estimating Iraqi civilian mortality, such as post-war retrospective surveys and demographic analysis, should be employed.

Delivery of assistance to the poor in the United States has changed drastically in the past 25 years. Although the availability of cash assistance has narrowed, the availability of food assistance has broadened. The most substantial change in assistance available to the poor has been the emergence of food pantries as a source of free food to prepare at home, which happened almost concurrent to changes in the operation of the Food Stamp Program. The authors argue that the cessation of the Food Stamp Program's buy-in requirement contributed to a chronic demand for private food assistance and that, in many respects, private food assistance substitutes for an inadequate public food safety net. The authors conclude with recommendations for strengthening the domestic food safety net.