healthy food - Smith Farm Chicken - a local success story - SIBEJO

SLU student and summer intern Amanda Korb will be spending part of her time visiting farmers and profiling them here on the GardenShare blog.  Here's her first entry:�Fajita spiced Smith Farm Chicken Breast on a crisp house made blue and yellow corn tortilla with queso fresco,...

healthy food - PREPARING FOR THE NEXT RECESSION BY STRENGTHENING SNAP - SIBEJO

The current economic recovery is already longer than the postwar average, so it may be prudent to ask--is a recession lurking around the corner? While there�s no way to know, Congress could start preparing for one by strengthening the �automatic stabilizers� in the federal budget�programs...

healthy food - SNAP CASELOADS DROP - SIBEJO

The number of SNAP participants has fallen by more than 3 million in the last three years, new USDA data for show � reflecting the broad pattern for SNAP that the Congressional Budget Office and others had forecast. SNAP grew significantly between 2007 and 2011 to meet rising need,...

healthy food - SNAP participation drops by more than a million people - SIBEJO

Nationwide, SNAP caseloads dropped by 1.3 million people in January 2016, as compared to January 2015.  SNAP participation is at its lowest level since April of 2011.Lower SNAP caseloads is likely due to an improving economy, and yet despite economic improvement, food hardship...