8/31 Webinar: SNAP and Food Assistance in a Time of Covid-19

REGISTER! SNAP + Food Assistance in a Time of Covid-19 WEBINAR A personal appeal from panelist Shewana Hairston McSwain 12:00 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 31 REGISTER HERE The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) will host a free webinar at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 31 to discuss food assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in a time of Covid-19. One of the panelists, Shewana Hairston McSwain, has asked registrants to consider her presentation through the eyes of some of the stakeholders she serves as the Expanded Food and Nutrition Outreach Coordinator at North Carolina A&T State University. As many as 6 to 7 million more people have been approved for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the effects of Covid-19 began in the U.S. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act gave the USDA authority to ease state requirements for compliance, but has the effort been timely and adequate? Joining Hairston McSwain and C-FARE board member and moderator Sean Cash to talk about this will be two food policy economists. George Davis is a professor at Virginia Tech who studies food demand and health outcomes with a focus on understanding the interaction of nutrition policies and time allocation in affecting nutrient intake and diet quality. He teaches in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise. Parke Wilde is a professor at the Friedman School at Tufts University where he focuses on U.S. food and nutrition policy, and federal food assistance. He authored the textbook Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction(Routledge, 2nd Ed, 2018), and writes at U.S. Food Policy. The webinar will conclude with questions from attendees. This free program is made possible with the support of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service.