SNAP Is Linked With Improved Nutritional Outcomes and Lower Health Care Costs
January 17, 2018
January 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities issued the following news release:
New and emerging research links the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), the nation's most important anti-hunger program, with improved health outcomes and lower health care costs. This research adds to previous work showing SNAP's powerful capacity to help families buy adequate food, reduce poverty, and help stabilize the economy during . . .
New and emerging research links the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), the nation's most important anti-hunger program, with improved health outcomes and lower health care costs. This research adds to previous work showing SNAP's powerful capacity to help families buy adequate food, reduce poverty, and help stabilize the economy during . . .