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A healthy diet isn't always possible for low-income Americans, even when they get SNAP benefits

  • Written by Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University
Everyone needs to eat their veggies. wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com

While researching how hard it is for low-income Americans to eat healthy on tight budgets, I’ve often found a mismatch between what people want to eat and the diet they can afford to follow. This made me wonder what eating right costs and how much of this tab gets covered by...

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