Meghan Nicholson
2023 Emergency Allotments Ohio has requested and received USDA approval for paying the SNAP Emergency Allotments for January and February 2023. The SNAP emergency allotment (EA) program provides additional “boosted” payments to households that are already getting regular state food stamp benefits. Th...
Department of Agriculture reveals food stamp recipients spent more money on sweetened beverages than they did on fruits, vegetables, bread, cereal, or milk. The USDA analyzed transactional data from a leading grocery store in 2011 and found that Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
If you have additional questions or need help applying for emergency food stamps or want to learn more about what your state is doing regarding additional food assistance, leave those in the comments section below. Check out some of our most popular articles, includingStates with the most people...
The Food Stamp/SNAP program has been called “the cornerstone of the nation’s nutrition safety net.” Criticism of the SNAP program includes concerns over the government subsidizing food assistance and potential misuse of the funds by participants. Some argue that participating in the program disc...
With the vast majority of SNAP beneficiaries already destitute, the diminished assistance would hurt in the best of times. But the Great Recession has thrown millions more people into poverty, including a growing segment of working poor. Experts say the food stamp cuts will spread hunger in the...
Nutrition Assistance Program on poor adults without children, according to court documents. The Trump administration has sought tocut the food stamp program, with USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue arguing last year that the program was meant to provide "assistance through difficult times, not a way of ...
WIC stands for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. After the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program) and the National School Lunch Program, the WIC program is the third-largest food and nutrition assistance program in the ...
Barry Ritholtz’s Bloomberg accountof how food corporations encourage employees to get federal assistance benefits Good Jobs First’sstate-by-state analysisof how many Walmart employees get Medicaid and food stamp benefits Maybe Congress would be kinder to SNAP benefits if it understood that big corpo...
hours and days of operation, level of client-choice, interest in study participation and working with Cooperative Extension, number of households served, an estimate of long-term pantry users (greater than 2 years), pounds of food distributed per month, government commodity program assistance (e....