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Recommendations From SNAP Participants to Improve Wages and End Stigma
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Recommendations From SNAP Participants to Improve Wages and End Stigma

Tianna Gaines-Turner, Joanna Cruz Simmons and Mariana Chilton
American journal of public health (1971), v 109(12), pp 1664-1667
Dec 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305362
PMID: 31622134
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Abstract

Employment - psychology Family Characteristics Food Assistance - economics Food Assistance - organization & administration Food Supply - economics Food Supply - methods Humans Nutrition Policy Poverty - psychology Salaries and Fringe Benefits Social Stigma United States
We present views of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from the perspective of participants. We are SNAP participants and academic researchers who have worked together for 11 years to understand, explain, and address food insecurity.SNAP is ensnared in much larger problems in US society related to the stigmatization of people who are poor and a lack of appreciation for the value and skills of their work. We encourage the public health community to think beyond SNAP, focus more assertively on wages and work supports, and replace our means-tested safety net with a new system of universal income that promotes equity, inclusion, and health for all.Although we offer recommendations to improve SNAP, the goal of most SNAP recipients has always been to move beyond the need for this program. The public health community can take the lead in finding more egalitarian, dignified, and effective ways to address poverty and food insecurity.

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UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:

#3 Good Health and Well-Being
#1 No Poverty
#2 Zero Hunger

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