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This resource guide puts forth 15 ideas for actions in food stamp and other child nutrition programs that states, schools, and cities can implement to feed more hungry low-income residents, especially children, and provide a direct federal economic stimulus for the state and its businesses. The guide asserts that states risk accelerating a downward economic cycle when they cut spending in the face of growing problems among their residents. It is argued that using federal funds through federal nutrition programs for low-income people can contribute to states' economic stimulus efforts. Strategies for the Food Stamp Program are: (1) expanding food stamp participation by easing application procedures; (2) improving outreach; (3) providing transitional food stamps for families leaving TANF; (4) easing information reporting for food stamp recipients and caseworkers; (5) expanding the food stamp time limit for needy jobless adults; (6) increasing food stamp benefit amounts via the standard utility allowance; (7) ensuring that low-income families with modest assets can receive food stamps; (8) improving food stamp benefit allotments for immigrant families; and (9) helping homeless and those with past drug addictions make a new start. Recommended strategies for the child nutrition programs are: (1) increasing participation in the School Breakfast and Lunch Programs; (2) ensuring that schools in low-income neighborhoods receive "severe need payments"; (3) expanding the number of after school programs using federal funds for nutritious snacks and suppers; (4) expanding availability of the Summer Food Service Program; (5) increasing family child care providers' participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program; and (6) expanding the number of homeless and domestic violence shelters that use the Child and Adult Care Food Program. (KB)