Clark Wolf is the host and organizer. The panel—on food and politics—includes me, talking about my memoir, Slow Cooked, An Unexpected Life in Food Politics; Chloe Sorvino, author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat; Alex Prud’homme, author of Dinner With The President: Food, Politics and the History of Breaking Bread at the White House; and Tanya Holland, author of Tanya Holland’s California Soul. Free, but register here. It starts at 5:00 p.m. and lasts one hour.
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?