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The USDA is stopping key flexibility in #SNAP that the WH & Congress gave states back in March to help them manage the applications influx due to #COVID19 — saying states must return to “normal,” even though current circumstances are anything but normal.
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Policymakers gave USDA the tools to respond to the extraordinary circumstances that state #SNAP agencies & millions of low-income households face. #SNAPMatters #BoostSNAPNow
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Now, USDA needs to continue giving states the flexibility to respond to the unprecedented increase in need until #COVID19 is under control & agency operations have returned to something like normal. Now is not the time.
#SNAPMatters #BoostSNAPNow
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#SNAPMatters #BoostSNAPNow
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New Report: @Laurenlbauer finds that young children are experiencing unprecedented levels of food insecurity during #COVID19. Food insecurity has doubled for all households and more than quadrupled among children from 2018 levels: hamiltonproject.org/blog/the_covid… 
In late April 2020, 22.7% of households reported not having sufficient resources to buy more food. In 2018, that number was 11.1%.
Children have been particularly affected by the dramatic rise in U.S. food insecurity. 2 in 5 mothers with children 12 and under reported that they ran out of food & did not have enough money to get more.
