At our December 14, 2021 Forum on Ending Hunger and Food Insecurity in New York City and the Nation: What Role for SNAP? Lessons from the Pandemic, 50 or so participants completed a poll ranking 10 measures to strengthen SNAP proposed by our panelists. Each proposal was rated from 1 (highest) to 3 (lowest) on [...]
My new publication, SNAP, Campus Food Insecurity, and the Politics of Deservingness, digs into the history of SNAP restrictions and the consequences of these policies for CUNY students today. SNAP student restrictions for full time college students were put in place in the early 1980’s. These rules bar full time college students from receiving SNAP [...]
Over the past year, President Trump and conservative lawmakers have proposed an avalanche of measures to cut SNAP, the nation’s most important safety net program. The changes in rules, none enacted by Congress, are in various stages of formulation, review or court challenges. Among the changes proposed to the food stamp program enacted in 1964 [...]
The Trump administration is wearing me out. Every time I turn around, there is another egregious proposal from the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service [FNS] to remove people from SNAP or cut their benefits. I think I am suffering from comment fatigue. With each successive proposed rule change, my comments have grown shorter [...]
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Representative Al Lawson (D-Fla.), a member of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, last month introduced the College Student Hunger Act of 2019, legislation to address food insecurity on college campuses by enabling more low-income [...]
The latest Trump Administration effort to shrink the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] would eliminate benefits to about 3 million current users, undo automatic eligibility for free school meals for about 500,000 students, and increase the administrative burden on the states and the complexity of the application process for future applicants. On July 24th, USDA [...]
In our February Newsletter, we wrote about a SNAP rule change proposed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The new rule would increase hunger and food insecurity by restricting the ability of states to waive the time limits for receipt of SNAP by able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDS). [Read earlier article here]. The [...]
Once again, the Trump administration has posted a proposed rule change that would increase hunger and food insecurity in the United States. And again, advocates are calling for individuals and organizations to post comments during the mandatory 60-day comment period that ends on April 2. The proposed rule would change the basis on which the [...]
In February, the Trump Administration released its proposed FY 2019 Budget. The budget would reduce support for mandatory and discretionary spending on domestic programs, while boosting spending on military and immigration enforcement. President Trump is proposing a 30% cut to nutrition programs including SNAP and WIC, a total cut of $213.5 billion over 10 years. [...]
Photo credit: Invisible People Last week, Temple University and Wisconsin Hope Lab brought together more than 400 students, faculty, college presidents, student services staff and advocates to consider new strategies to reduce food insecurity and homelessness among college students in the United States. Among the goals participants discussed were: Ending no-cause evictions for college students, [...]
