SNAP in a Trump Budget
Photo: Paul Sableman (CC) Crook Fellow Cassie Davis details the effects of the Trump administration’s budget proposal will have on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), using insights gleaned from her work for Bread for the World: SNAP faces budget cut proposals every year, but the Trump administration takes its first hit at the effective food assistance program. It threatens a wide range of Americans through significant structural changes to the working program. The Great Depression yielded a variety of welfare programs, including the highly effective Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly referred to as food stamps. The program was designed...
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