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Thread: The #unemployment rate is very high & millions report that their households did not get enough to eat or that they are behind in paying the rent.

We are tracking this hardship in our new special series. #RentReliefNow #BoostSNAPNow

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What we know. People are:

🍎 Having difficulty getting enough food
🏠 Unable to pay rent or mortgage
🏭 Unemployment is high
🧒 There are millions of kids facing hardship
📈 And overall hardship is trending upward

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🍎 About 29M adults — 12.1% of all adults — reported that their household sometimes or often didn’t have enough to eat in the last 7 days. That translates to an estimated 9-17M kids who live in a family in which the kids were not eating enough because the they couldn’t afford it. ImageImage
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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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