The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity and health disparities.

Sara Bleich, a professor of public health policy at the Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says one of the best ways to address food insecurity is to improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

She says there is

a provision in the House-passed Heroes Act that would increase the overall size

of the SNAP benefit by 15 percent.

“It’s about $100 dollars per month for a family of four sand o we’ll have to keep our eyes on that and see if it passes,” she says.

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