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SNAP benefits cost a total of $85.6B in the 2020 fiscal year amid heightened US poverty and unemployment

  • Written by Tracy Roof, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
imageSome states make it possible to use SNAP benefits at farmers markets.AP Photo/Robert F. Bukatyimage

The government spent a record US$85.6 billion on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the fiscal year ending in September. This sum, included in an October Treasury Department report, was about 35% higher than the $63.5 billion the federal...

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