Unless members of Congress intervene to prevent it, the food stamp program—also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—will be suspended beginning November 1. If the federal partial “shutdown” ends before then, the program will likely send out the usual billions of dollars to the nation’s 41 million recipients on schedule.
Needless to say, lobbyists and activists who favor the food stamp program have been working furiously to make sure that the program is not interrupted.
Much of the narrative around food stamps has focused on the fact that millions of low-income households receive more than eight billion dollars in food…
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