Food bank and anti-hunger advocates peppered state legislators with ideas about how to fight poverty at a meeting at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank on Wednesday.
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More Fresh Access
Just Harvest’s new Fresh Access program that allows people to shop at some Pittsburgh farmers markets using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits as well as debit/credit cards […]
Now use SNAP benefits at farmers’ markets
Just Harvest has expanded its Fresh Access program to all seven Pittsburgh Citiparks farmers’ markets. The program facilitates the use of SNAP benefits/food stamps as well as credit and debit cards at […]
More farmers markets will accept food stamps in Pittsburgh neighborhoods
A program allowing food stamp recipients to shop at city-sponsored farmers markets is expanding. Just Harvest started its Fresh Access program in May, allowing people to use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance […]
Use your cards at the farmers markets
Would you like to buy some nice, fresh wooden tokens at the farmers market? You might if you don’t have any cash on you, and you want to use your […]
Cuts to Food Stamps to Impact 1.8 Million Pennsylvanians
When the 1.8 million Pennsylvanians on food stamps wake up on November 1, they will have less money for their breakfast. A nationwide cut will reduce the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance […]
1.8 million across Pa. to feel cut in food aid
Come November, almost 1.8 million Pennsylvanians who receive food stamps will get less money every month for their groceries. The cut is the result of the scheduled Nov. 1 expiration […]
Gaining Access To Fresh Food
This summer marks the first that shoppers can use food stamps to purchase fresh produce at city farmers’ markets. In May, Just Harvest-in coordination with the Food Policy Council and […]
Lack of produce drives mobile grocery project
It may be easy to find a Primanti Brother’s sandwich in Pittsburgh, but it is difficult in some areas to find fresh green beans and apples. It is a problem […]
Don’t split farm bill
Your editorial (“Food stamps have evolved into farm bill Frankenstein,” July 11) is so wildly incorrect about the facts that it undermines the conclusions you draw and the opinions you […]
