Posts by Craig Gundersen

Consequences of proposed restrictions on SNAP benefits

June 02, 2014

Food insecurity is one of the leading public health issues in the United States. Despite the end of the Great Recession, the nation’s food insecurity rate remains at very high levels. In 2012, almost 50 million Americans lived in food insecure households. The existence of food insecurity is a problem...

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Food Insecurity in Rural America

March 17, 2016

Food insecurity has become a leading health care issue in the United States. This is due to two central reasons. First, the magnitude of the problem remains staggering. Despite the end of the Great Recession in 2009, food insecurity rates remain far above the levels pre-recession. In 2014, 15.4% of...

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