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From the Executive Summary: The coronavirus pandemic has created a global food security crisis that threatens to eclipse the disease itself A recent survey by the Brookings Institution revealed unprecedented numbers of children going hungry in the United States In late April, close to one in five households with young children did not have enough food for their kids, a rate three times higher than at any point during the 2008 recession One of the government\'s band-aid solutions was to allot funds to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to buy food from farmers to give to food banks This ad hoc measure has proven clumsy and inefficient Millions of desperate, newly-unemployed people, from Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Honolulu, Hawaii, wait in miles-long lines to receive food that is often inadequate, low-quality, and unhealthy The only real solution to rampant food insecurity is a more generous and flexible food assistance program Democrats reintroduced legislation in April that would expand the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as \'food stamps,\' to stave off the hunger awaiting many families Unlike food banks, SNAP uses existing infrastructures to get food to people quickly and effectively As an anti-hunger program, SNAP works Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U S );Food security;COVID-19 (Disease)
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