EdLoC Joins Joint Statement by National Organizations in Support of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

On March 15, 2023, EdLoC signed onto a statement of support letter led by Share Our Strength, Food Research and Action Center, Feeding America, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in support of strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during Farm Bill deliberations. Nearly 225 national organizations and farm bill stakeholders signed onto this important SNAP Statement of Support. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow (D-MI) entered the letter into the hearing record of the Senate Agriculture Committee on March 9th. 

SNAP, our nation’s most significant anti-hunger program, promotes economic security, health, and well-being. Indeed, research has found that the combination of the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) update and the provision of temporary SNAP Emergency Allotments (EAs) reduced poverty in the last quarter of 2021 by 14.1 percent and child poverty by 21.8 percent in states that had EAs at the time. Strengthening SNAP is important to EdLoC’s policy priority areas, under Earning More and Being Cared For since it plays a critical role in reducing poverty, improving health and economic outcomes, supporting people who are paid low wages.  

You can read the full statement of support here