Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #ProtectSNAP
Most recents (1)
As of this morning, Republicans are still pushing ahead for a vote on the #GOPFarmBill, which would strip more than 2 million Americans of food assistance.
So it feels like a good time to review some facts about hunger in America.
(THREAD)
So it feels like a good time to review some facts about hunger in America.
(THREAD)
For many of us, the word “hunger” evokes third-world images of kids with distended bellies. Or maybe the homeless man sitting on the subway grate. But in America in 2018, hunger and food insecurity are an alarmingly widespread experience.
2/
2/
In a recent national survey conducted by @amprog, nearly 40% of Americans report that they or someone in their immediate family faced serious problems with “having too little money to buy food”—just within the past year. americanprogress.org/issues/poverty…
3/
3/
