Jessica Wynn
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8,464 appearances
15 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6d ago
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I mean, that seems to be the pattern of a lot of public health policy, unfortunately.
Price.
That's the clearest answer.
Studies found that subsidizing healthy foods for low-income households, specifically making fruits and vegetables financially competitive with junk food, could close the nutrition gap entirely.
Their estimate was about $11 billion a year, roughly 15% of the SNAP budget at the time.
It is food stamps.
It's just we don't use the physical stamps anymore because, you know, tech took over.
So SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
But yes, essentially it's food stamps.
The USDA says federal SNAP spending was about $99.8 billion in the 2024 fiscal year.
So we're talking about a meaningful number here, but not some unimaginable number, especially compared with years of spending on place-based retail strategies that produced tiny effects.
It's not.
And there's another intervention here that I think is genuinely promising.
Online grocery purchasing with SNAP.
So instead of building a store and hoping the people who face the biggest mobility barriers can get to it, you let them use benefits for pickup or delivery.
The SNAP benefits traditionally could only be used at physical stores.
The USDA has recently allowed
online Snap purchasing to expand nationally, and both DoorDash and Instacart now support Snap and EBT purchases with participating retailers.
This targets the mobility-constrained, the car-free, and low-income households who face the most real geographic barriers.
So instead of hoping they will come to the new store, you can bring the groceries to them.
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