Over the pandemic, the federal government expanded food stamp benefits, allowing more people to enroll in the SNAP program. But those expanded benefits came to an end last month, leaving […]
Wisconsin FoodShare Leaves Many Out
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Wisconsin SNAP Leaves Many Out First created in 1939 by the Roosevelt Administration as a way of simultaneously keeping people from starving and coping with food […]
Is SNAP Boost a Model for U.B.I.?
The USDA is set to increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits by more than 25%, the biggest increase in over 40 years. Professor Craig Gundersen weighs in on […]
Wisconsin Set Precedent for Federal SNAP Changes
Yesterday, Sonny Perdue, the head of the United States Department of Agriculture announced a final rule change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. That program provided food stamps […]
Trump Seeks to Cut SNAP Benefits
By any measure, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, — perhaps still better known as “Food Stamps” — has been one of the great success stories of U.S. domestic […]
The Real Cost of College
As we recently discussed on the show, student loan debt in the United States has increased significantly over the past decade, jumping from $600 billion in 2008 to over $1.5 […]
