THE COASTAL PACKET: Food stamps crucial to Maine

Friday, May 4

Food stamps crucial to Maine

Maine Center for Economic Policy - Data from Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that SNAP is especially important for the economy of rural Maine, in the western and northeastern parts of the state. In those counties, as many as one in four households use the program to put food on the table, and SNAP benefits pay for up to 18 percent of all grocery sales in those areas.

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