Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
by Marion Nestle
Jul
14
2016
How to reduce SNAP caseloads? Easy. Just set a 3-month limit.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has just released an analysis of the recent decline in SNAP caseloads.
Some SNAP participants may be finding jobs along with an improving economy and going off the rolls. Good for them.
But a more likely reason is that states like Florida, Missouri, Alabama, and Arkansas instituted a 3-month time limit in January. The limit appleis to “unemployed childless adults without disabilities.”
Other states are doing this too.
If you want your state to reduce its SNAP expenditures, here’s one way to do that.
And if there aren’t jobs? What are poor people supposed to do?
