August 30, 2022
July 28, 2022 Since the onset of COVID-19, several temporary Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) changes have allowed enrolled households to receive more robust benefits and eased access for unemployed and underemployed adults and college students. The changes are tied to the duration of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration (PHE). Recent research has […]
The Food Research & Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducted a rapid assessment project to document the development and implementation of P-EBT benefits covering the spring of 2020. The project identified the various approaches states took to implement P-EBT, as well as key preliminary lessons state officials and other stakeholders have […]
Media Contact: Jordan Baker jbaker@frac.org 202-640-1118 Statement attributed to Luis Guardia, president, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) WASHINGTON, July 27, 2020 — Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s proposed COVID-19 response omits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit boosts and falls woefully short of the investments needed to address food and economic hardship and jump-start economic […]
These interactive maps provide state-by-state data on food hardship (See FRAC’s report How Hungry Is America? FRAC’s National, State, and Local Index of Food Hardship). Follow this link to the interactive tables. Interactive Tables on Food Hardship US table by year US table by quarter US table by month Regional table, all households Regional table, […]