SNAP Matters for
People with Disabilities
I had a great time yesterday at lunch listening and watching
the Food Research and Action Center’s (FRAC)
webinar on Disability,
Food Insecurity, and SNAP: Addressing the needs of Americans with Disabilities
(click here to watch the recording).
The webinar coincided with the release
of FRAC’s report, SNAP
Matters for People with Disabilities (click here to download). The report states that 1 in 3 American’s
with disabilities live in a state of food insecurity.
Food insecurity is the inability to provide adequate food
for one or more household members due to a lack of resources at some point in
the year, according to Alisha
Coleman-Jensen (click link to bio), from the Economic Research Service of
USDA. She also mentioned in in her
section of the webinar the USDA report, Food
Insecurity Among Households with Working-Age Adults with Disabilities.
I am hoping to take a close look at both of these reports
and get back to you all with information regarding North Dakota specific
information. This is an issue that I don’t
know personally and I hope to learn more in the coming months.
If anyone has some information they would like to share with
me please contact me at NDESPA@agree.org.
Scott Fry
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