{"id":3271,"date":"2017-10-31T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/2017\/10\/31\/10-ways-snap-is-so-good-at-its-job-that-its-scary\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:52:23","slug":"10-ways-snap-is-so-good-at-its-job-that-its-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/blog\/10-ways-snap-is-so-good-at-its-job-that-its-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways SNAP is so Good at its Job that it&#8217;s Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59526658_1a5102d2f3_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59526658_1a5102d2f3_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59526658_1a5102d2f3_b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59526658_1a5102d2f3_b-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/59526658_1a5102d2f3_b-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>This Halloween we can&#8217;t help but be a little scared by how well the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program works. Here are ten reasons why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Research has found that receipt of SNAP in early childhood improved high school graduation rates, adult earnings, and adult health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Seniors enrolled in SNAP are 23% less likely to need assisted living.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Seniors enrolled in SNAP are 14% less likely to end up in the hospital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Every billion in SNAP benefits generates as many as 14,000 jobs in states like California.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Every $5 in SNAP benefits generates $9 in economic activity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>SNAP lifted 3.6 million Americans out of poverty in 2016, according to the Census Bureau\u2019s Supplemental Poverty Measure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>SNAP reacts quickly and robustly to economic problems and natural disasters; as seen&nbsp;in the swift action to enroll people after the recent California wildfires.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>SNAP supports working families struggling with low wages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>SNAP helps families fill their plates with healthy food and improves their dietary intake.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>SNAP stops people from going hungry.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u25baRight-click and save to share meme:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/halloween-meme.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 590px;\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>(Jackolantern by Elliot Moore\/Flickr Creative Commons)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Halloween we can&#8217;t help but be a little scared by how well the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program works. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8,11,84,12],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-calfresh-snap","tag-federal-policy","tag-halloween","tag-mood-booster"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}