Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food – new research
- Written by Grace Melo, Assistant professor of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Few people with SNAP benefits could use them for online purchases before the COVID-19 pandemic.Urupong/ iStock via Getty Images PlusThe share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency – sometimes or often not having enough food to eat – fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found...