Tara Kramer sits in her apartment with her cat Busy, Friday, April 8, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying food through the federal SNAP program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
April 15, 2022
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April 15, 2022 11:25 a.m.
States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar
But the extra benefits also help out families in need at a time of skyrocketing prices for food