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Hope Center Senior Policy Associate Tom Hilliard Explains to Axios How SNAP Rollback Will Hurt Students

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In Axios, Tom Hilliard, Senior Policy Associate at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, explains how the SNAP rollback will hurt students. Extra food assistance benefits put into place during the pandemic ended on March 1, leaving thousands of families with low incomes compromised. 1.9 million people in Pennsylvania receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, a quarter of whom are in Philadelphia.