🗣️'I went hungry in college because nobody told me about SNAP' - Heather Taylor, the managing director of bread4theworld, shares her experiences of poor nutrition as a result of struggling financially in college.
I'm ashamed to say I did not know that SNAP was available to me as a college student until I began working at Bread for the World, a Christian advocacy organization. Here, I learned that all of these options were available to me in college.
Food is a basic necessity, it's not a rite of passage. Students should be educated and then given the ability to access nutrition that they learn about. At Bread for the World, we are trying to break these barriers. We are advocating to strengthen the GusNIP program that is part of the Farm Bill. This bill, dedicated partly to nutrition, is scheduled to be reauthorized by U.S.in 2023. GusNip incentivizes and increases the capacity of individuals to access fruits and vegetables through SNAP, which is marvelous.
I speak to a lot of people who are in the food industry, like cafeteria workers. One mom, who is a cafeteria worker, loves her job and interacting with kids, but could barely afford to feed her own children. The expanded Child Tax Credit, a federal government program we advocated for during COVID, helped push her over the financial hump.
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