Published April 28, 2025 Gina Plata-Nino, JD, FRAC Deputy Director of SNAP, and Nick Levendofsky, Executive Director of the Kansas Farmers Union This article is part of a series examining the sweeping and often overlooked consequences of proposed SNAP cuts, sharing a range of perspectives — from health experts and policy leaders to frontline grocers […]
Published April 22, 2025 Gina Plata-Nino, JD, Deputy Director of SNAP and Children’s HealthWatch This article is part of a series exploring the wide-ranging consequences of proposed SNAP cuts. Today’s conversation is with Children’s HealthWatch, a nonprofit focused on improving children’s health in the U.S., to share insights on how these changes would affect the […]
Published March 11, 2025 These days, it’s a common experience to walk into the grocery store and experience sticker shock. For months, everyone from news outlets to economists has been discussing rising grocery costs. We are all doing what we need in order to make ends meet before getting to the checkout line — from […]
Published February 26, 2025 In the summer of 2024, Tennessee participated in the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (Summer EBT) Program, which provided $120 in grocery benefits to approximately 700,000 eligible children across the state. While Summer EBT benefit dollars are provided by the federal government, states must match 50 percent of the administrative cost of […]
Published February 10, 2025 Recent reignited proposals to impose restrictions on the types of food available for purchase through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are misguided. These proposals fail to recognize that the real solution to improving health outcomes a lies not in further restricting SNAP, but in addressing the systemic factors that affect […]