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Startup Takes Aim at SNAP Gap

Propel, a Brooklyn, NY, startup that offers an app to manage SNAP, scrambled as soon as it heard that the government would be handing out February SNAP benefits early due to the shutdown. Early issuance of SNAP would create a long gap between payments, it realized, and it hoped to…

Diabetes Program Scores Small Successes

When Anna Trautwein looks back on a program aimed at improving the health of diabetic food-pantry clients in Essex County, N.J., she sees some stand-out success stories:  the handful of people who lost a significant amount of weight; the few who were able to wean themselves off some prescription drugs;…

Public Health Hinges on Food Security

The head of the FDA put the transformative impact of good nutrition into perspective when he said in a March 2018 speech that the public health gains of improved diet “would almost certainly dwarf any single medical innovation or intervention we could discover.” Who knew that one of the most…