Responsible Nutrition Policy

SNAP Healthy Food Choice Demonstration Waiver

Modifying SNAP Income and Asset Requirements

Americans are a generous people who established the food stamp program to act as a temporary safety net for the most vulnerable. The program, now called SNAP, provides over $850 million in benefits annually to Minnesotans, 100% of which is currently federally-funded. Yet it is the states and local governments that administer the program, with further financial assistance from the federal government, meaning that states, or in the case of Minnesota, counties, are entrusted to manage the program well on behalf of all American taxpayers.

AFPI Applauds Governor Braun for Signing Comprehensive Human Services Reforms into Law

Washington, D.C.—Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) issued the following statement from Matthew Schmid, Health & Harvest Campaign Director, about the Indiana legislature and AFPI Governor’s Council Member Governor Mike Braun passing Senate Bill 1: “Governor Braun’s signature this week on a comprehensive package of welfare reforms provides Indiana with the tools it needs to better preserve taxpayer-funded assistance programs for the Americans who need it most.

Polling Summary: Support For Stronger Guardrails In SNAP Regarding Income & Asset Tests, Citizenship, And Work Requirements

Time To End The Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility Loophole In SNAP

Today, one in eight Americans depend on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. When the national media focused on the implications of the recent 43-day government funding lapse for SNAP, it also exposed just how the bloated SNAP has become and how it has shifted away from supporting self-sufficiency towards fostering government dependency.