How the new SNAP exemptions help more college students qualify for assistance April 12, 2021 Background on College Student Food Insecurity There is a common misconception that college students cannot, or do not, face food insecurity. When we imagine who attends college, we often think of students fresh out of high school, supported by their […]
April 8, 2021 In this guest blog post, Dr. Janet Poppendieck, Urban School Food Alliance Advisory Council Member, highlights 10 key reasons to support free healthy school meals for all. Professor Poppendieck is the author of Free For All: Fixing School Food in America (University of California Press, 2010). Reduce childhood hunger and food insecurity. […]
April 1, 2021 On March 31, attorneys representing Pennsylvania Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants secured an important victory when the Biden administration abandoned the Trump administration’s opposition to Families First SNAP Emergency Assistance going to the lowest income households already at the maximum benefit levels. As a result of the settlement, Pennsylvania will have […]
March 31, 2021 Retailers saw large increases in SNAP redemptions, thanks to emergency SNAP benefits. Background In fiscal year 2019, the USDA-FNS reported that SNAP retailer redemptions approximated $56 billion. In their recently released fiscal year 2020 data, that number dramatically increased to $78 billion. The USDA-FNS attributes this 40% increase in redemptions to the […]
March 18, 2021 The Enhanced Access to SNAP Act (EATS Act), introduced by Representatives Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), would put college students with lower incomes on an equal footing with other people who would be eligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Under H.R. 1919, SNAP […]