pandemic assistance

Additional benefits during the pandemic helped SNAP recipients reduce hunger and buy more expensive, healthy food.

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Pandemic food assistance that held back hunger comes to an end

10:58am March 01, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

Millions of people who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known as SNAP will see a cut of $90 a month or more. Some recipients say it will make it harder to buy healthy food.

Sheila Ambert says she did everything she was supposed to do to be protected from eviction by an order from the CDC. But her landlord is pushing ahead trying to evict her anyway. Housing advocates say the protections need to be strengthened.

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Economy
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Renters Are Getting Evicted Despite CDC Order — 'I'm Scared'

1:04pm February 12, 2021

by Chris Arnold

Some landlords are evicting tenants despite an order from the CDC aimed at stemming the spread of COVID-19 by preventing evictions. That has led to calls to strengthen protections.

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Flaviane da Conceição, 40, a self-employed house cleaner, poses for a photo at her home in the Cidade de Deus favela on July 29 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A single mother of three, she applied for government emergency aid at the beginning of the coronav

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Coronavirus-Hit Brazil Considers Major Public Funds For Poor And Unemployed

2:19pm August 31, 2020

by Catherine Osborn

Pandemic emergency aid gave an unlikely ratings boost to President Jair Bolsonaro, who has criticized welfare and protested virus prevention measures. Now he's weighing further social spending.