The Biden administration approved an increase in food assistance benefits, the largest expansion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program history.
an executive order urging the department to consider revising the plan to ensure benefits “reflect the modern cost of a healthy basic diet.”Advocates have long decried the federal program for not providing participants with enough benefits to afford healthy food.Cutting child poverty in half could be one of President Biden’s major legacies. But a permanent program is expensive, and Biden may go for less.
Demand for food stamps increased in spring 2020 as the deadly novel coronavirus emerged and the American economy fell into recession. A 15% increase in food stamp benefitsThe most recent increase to the program, which began in 1975, is part of a broader push by the Biden administration to expand America’s social safety net, which advocates have said proved inadequate to protect millions from poverty and food insecurity as the deadly virus emerged.
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