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Grace Melo

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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 Plus

November 7, 2023

Letting low‑income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food – new research

Grace Melo, Texas A&M University; Andrea Leschewski, South Dakota State University, and Kyle Jones, University of Kentucky

The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.

The pandemic-era expansion of SNAP benefits ended in all U.S. states by March 2023. aogreatkim/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

March 27, 2023

Extra food assistance cushioned the early pandemic’s blow on kids’ mental health

Grace Melo, Texas A&M University; Pourya Valizadeh, Texas A&M University, and Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr., Texas A&M University

Expanding SNAP helped shield low-income children from some of the harm caused by economic upheaval when the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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