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Text messages are more effective than paper flyers to help emergency department (ED) patients apply for public benefits programs, like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program ...
Feb 10, 2026
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Can Americans really eat healthy for just $3 a meal?
Jan 20, 2026
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Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. She had brought her husband, teenage son, and 79-year-old mother-in-law ...
Dec 23, 2025
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During the 43-day federal government shutdown, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were withheld for two weeks in early November. This was the first time in the program's history that the benefits—designed ...
Dec 10, 2025
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When Eat Well, Be Well was launched in Rhode Island in January 2024, it was the first program of its kind in the country to offer a financial incentive for those in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ...
Nov 25, 2025
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About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are children under 18. This food aid helps their families buy groceries and boosts their health in many ways—both ...
Nov 17, 2025
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Millions of Americans rely on public assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid to meet basic needs for food and health care. Yet a new study from the Brown School at Washington ...
Nov 12, 2025
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Payments through SNAP, the federal food assistance program, have been delayed during the government shutdown, but program cuts in this summer's budget bill already put vulnerable families at long-term risk of going hungry.
Nov 11, 2025
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The 15% expansion of food stamp payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP for short, during the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced the odds of needy children going hungry, especially in Hispanic-American ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Investigators at Mass General Brigham have found that cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States have declined overall over the last decade, but disparities have persisted and in some cases widened. Poverty, which ...
Nov 10, 2025
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