Tag: safety net
America’s poorest children won’t get nutritious meals with school cafeterias closed...
Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Schools aren’t only places where kids learn. They are also places where kids eat.
Thanks to the...
Restricting SNAP benefits could hurt millions of Americans – and local...
Cindy Leung, University of Michigan and Julia A. Wolfson, University of Michigan
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to restrict access to Supplemental Nutrition...
Selecting groceries ahead of time helps some shoppers make healthier choices
Anya Samek, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
I often toss items into my grocery cart that I have...
US poverty statistics ignore millions of struggling Americans
Sophie Mitra, Fordham University and Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire
Who counts as poor in the U.S. today?
Measuring the share of the population that...
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
Susan R. Crandall, University of Massachusetts Boston
Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills.
There is no place in...
The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress
Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, North Carolina State University
The Trump administration wants to tighten even further longstanding restrictions on who is eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
The 2019 government shutdown is just the latest reason why poor...
Jamila Michener, Cornell University
I conduct a lot of in-depth interviews with people like a woman I’ll call Angie as part of my work as...
The GOP’s poor arguments for doubling down on SNAP’s work requirements
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan
Republicans aim to tighten the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s work requirements as part of the farm bill Congress is debating.
These...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
