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SNAP-Ed saves money and stretches dollars.

Congress is considering a bill that would eliminate SNAP-Ed—a critical program that helps low-income families make healthier food choices and lead more active lives.

SNAP-Ed is a proven, cost-effective program that empowers people who receive SNAP to improve their health, stretch their food dollars, and become self-reliant.

Take action using the Save SNAP-Ed Advocacy Toolkit or by sharing the resources below with your network!

Read the rebuttal to the Statement that SNAP-Ed is duplicative.

Testimonials

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Teacher
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Teacher

"Our students at Odyssey Middle school learned so much on the importance of nutrition and how their performance depends on their food choices. Please do not eliminate a program that improves student's health."
Affordable Housing Resident Service Coordinator
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Affordable Housing Resident Service Coordinator

"I am a Resident Service Coordinator with Avesta Housing and work with our affordable housing residents to provide education & community engagement activities that create a more fulfilling and empowering place for folks

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Local Farmer Gets a Sales Boost from SNAP-Ed

Local Farmer Gets a Sales Boost from SNAP-Ed

"Appleknockers Farm is a new vendor at the Kalkaska Farmers Market as of summer 2025. They are a small, family ran farm with a wide variety of produce. As new vendors, Appleknockers are

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Floridian Librarian
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Floridian Librarian

"As a public librarian, I work with community members who lack access to good, healthy food as well as the education tools on how to best prepare them. SNAP-Ed has presented various times

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A Pennsylvania School Teacher
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A Pennsylvania School Teacher

"I had the opportunity to witness Miss Allie from a Penn State SNAP-Ed outreach program come into my son’s classroom. She read informational books and gave them experiences with foods that some kids

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Ag School Day Event in Ohio
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Ag School Day Event in Ohio

"I have seen first had the positive impact SNAP-Ed has on children and seniors in our county. This program benefits so many in so many ways. Children loved Nutritious Foods from the Farm

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Ohio Preschool Students
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Ohio Preschool Students

"This year, as the preschool students sit down to eat, they will identify the food on their plates and match it to which Discover MyPlate character each part of their meal belongs to.

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Philadelphia Schools
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Philadelphia Schools

"I work directly in a school setting in Philadelphia. This program has been instrumental in teaching our students and their families about healthy eating and its benefits. Students learn about making healthier choices

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SNAP-Ed Supports SNAP Participants to Shop at Farmer’s Markets
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SNAP-Ed Supports SNAP Participants to Shop at Farmer’s Markets

"As the Director of Programs at a nonprofit organization that operates both hunger relief initiatives and farmers markets, I’ve had the privilege of working with SNAP-Ed for the past 10 years. Together, we

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NY Program Participant
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NY Program Participant

"I think this program is great. I learned a lot here about nutrition here including how to look at labels and see what is in the food I am trying and if it

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Tennessee Elementary Students Build Healthy Habits
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Tennessee Elementary Students Build Healthy Habits

"A student in the Power U class at an elementary school in McNairy County in west Tennessee was excited to tell the SNAP-Ed educator that he had been following the MyPlate nutrition guide

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Florida Students Learn About Plants
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Florida Students Learn About Plants

"The SNAP-Ed program was a very beneficial program for my students, it provided an hands on approach to learning, knowledge of the plant cycle and nutrition. Students learned the importance of making healthy

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Research Articles

LT17: Health Care Cost Savings

“Existing studies show that for every $1 spent to implement programs such as EFNEP and SNAP-Ed education programs, up to $10.64 is saved in health care costs.5 These studies pre-date the provisions of HHFKA and SNAP-Ed's expanded reach through comprehensive scope of services, thus we anticipate potential health care costs savings to be even greater.”

SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education) Increases Long-Term Food Security among Indiana Households with Children in a Randomized Controlled Study

Rivera, R. L., Maulding, M. K., Abbott, A. R., Craig, B. A., & Eicher-Miller, H. A. (2016). SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education) Increases Long-Term Food Security among Indiana Households with Children in a Randomized Controlled Study. The Journal of nutrition, 146(11), 2375–2382. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.116.231373

The SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework: demonstrating the impact of a national framework for obesity prevention in low-income populations

This article introduces and describes the benefits of the newly developed SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework (Framework) and companion Interpretive Guide to consistently measure SNAP-Ed outcomes across different settings

Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education (SNAP-Ed) on food security and dietary outcomes

This narrative review summarizes current investigations of SNAP-Ed’s effectiveness at improving food security and dietary outcomes, and it can help inform future policy and implementation of the program.

Creating healthier Illinoisans: SNAP-Ed generates up to $135 million in future benefits

Cost-benefit analysis conducted for nutrition education in California:

A cost-benefit analysis was conducted using the program demographics and food-related dietary behavior of participants enrolled in California’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), based on methodology developed by Virginia Cooperative Extension.

The US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education improves nutrition-related behaviors

This study suggests that SNAP-Ed direct education is associated with positive behaviour changes in the US Southeast.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education reductions during COVID-19 may have exacerbated health inequities

Woodward-Lopez, G., Esaryk, E. E., Hewawitharana, S. C., Kao, J., Talmage, E., & Rider, C. D. (2023).

Making Headlines

View our full list of SNAP-Ed making headlines

“[SNAP] is really MAHA for low-income people,” Jerry Mande, adjunct professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told your host. “Not just SNAP recipients, but all low-income people.”
GOP reconciliation bill inches forward Politico
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, or SNAP-Ed, faces elimination in a GOP bill, sparking concerns about the impact on low-income Americans' health education.
Nutrition program for Americans on food stamps at risk in GOP bill The Washington Post
"The cost of this program is roughly half a billion dollars a year, not even a rounding error in the federal budget. Cutting it does no good for anyone, undercuts the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) agenda, and is thoughtless and unnecessary."
The next tragic—absurd—budget cut: SNAP-ED Food Politics
“It does, in fact, enact deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that will result in eligible people losing those benefits. It will raise grocery prices and health care costs for tens of thousands of West Virginia families,”
‘A really bad deal for West Virginians’: Advocates decry GOP’s cuts to health care, food assistance The West Virginia Daily News
“The loss of SNAP-Ed funding may further hinder public health efforts, reducing resources for obesity prevention and nutrition education in immigrant communities. States may face pressure to cover these gaps, but fiscal constraints could limit such efforts, disproportionately harming low-income and immigrant populations.”
Anti-hunger, food, farm groups react to House GOP ag proposal The Fence
An initial analysis by the Wisconsin DHS showed that a set of proposals in the new bill to cut funding for the SNAP program would take food away from families, shift costs to Wisconsin taxpayers, and increase red-tape requirements, making it harder for parents, kids, people with disabilities, and older adults to get food assistance.
REPORT: New House Bill Harms Wisconsin Economy, Drives People Into Hunger B105

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