Campus organizations tasked with addressing students’ basic needs are working to meet the increased demand caused by recent reductions and pauses in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The...
For the first time in almost seven years, the federal government shut down Oct. 1, leaving approximately 750,000 federal employees furloughed until Congress agrees on a new budget. As the shutdown leaves...
Addressing the stigma around nutrition assistance programs
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is a social safety net program that “provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food...
Certain St. Joe’s students are now qualified to receive help buying food using funds from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) due to a temporary extension of eligibility requirements...
President Trump has decided to cut food stamps, and his proposed plan could have a disastrous effect on a lot of poor Americans. But is that a shock to anyone?
Let me take a step back and shed some light...
A glimpse of life with food insecurity
I have never gone hungry.
On the contrary, I generally spend around $80 per week on groceries, supplemented by more-than-occasional $9.50 take-out falafel platters...
