rom the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org):
Right now, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cannot meet the massive demand across the country. If it’s not expanded, people will starve.
Already, we’re seeing miles-long car lines at local food banks that are desperately trying to meet their communities’ needs as unemployment skyrockets and millions find themselves unable to make ends meet.
To weather this storm, we need more investment in SNAP—and we need it now.
Go to https://www.americanprogress.org/urgent-snap-isnt-expanded-people-will-starve/ to tell Congress to prioritize SNAP in the next relief package.
When families were facing the worst economic downturn of their lifetimes during the Great Recession, SNAP not only kept food on the table for millions but also benefited the ailing U.S. economy. In economic downturns, like the one we’re facing because of the coronavirus, every SNAP dollar invested puts between $1.50 and $1.80 right back into the economy.
And now the coronavirus is threatening people’s lives and the economy simultaneously.
This crisis is unprecedented, and any solution from Congress must match the scale of the problem we’re trying to solve. Tell your elected leaders that expanding SNAP must be a top priority in the next relief package.
Millions of people depend on it.
The first relief package passed by Congress was a good start: States were given critical flexibility to administer SNAP benefits and services to more people much more quickly. But disappointingly, the $2 trillion relief package most recently passed by Congress didn’t continue that investment.
In fact, Congress still doesn’t have a bill on the table to further invest in or expand SNAP.
These are frightening times, but we’re going to keep fighting. We hope you will, too.
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