Schuster’s Blog: Inflation, grandfamilies, and SNAP

Families with limited resources are being squeezed on all sides.

Overall inflation has slowed yet food prices increased over the past year for different foods/categories of food (https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/business/grocery-prices/index.html) and many companies raise prices and reap profits (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/business/food-prices-profits.html).
Vegetables: 90% increase in cost compared to November 2021 due to drought, the cost of water (https://www.fooddive.com/news/drought-vegetable-prices-80-percent-increase/638461/). There’s a new report about grandfamilies, EBT SNAP theft (and how to avoid it), expensive fast food/food delivery and the connection between TikTok and school lunch debt.

Seniors raising children (grandfamilies) are twice as food insecure as older adults that don’t have children they are raising (https://www.feedwm.org/2022/01/grandfamilies-grow-in-number-and-challenges/); a new report/infographic and other resources about the nutrition, health and well-being of grandfamilies (https://www.gu.org/resources/state-of-grandfamilies-report-2022/).
Grandfamilies: search laws by state, resources and more (https://www.grandfamilies.org/).
Nutrition programs for grandfamilies: a 3 page fact sheet (https://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/FRAC_FNP-GrandFam_FactSheet1.pdf).

Which fast food raised prices the most in 2022? Wendy’s (https://www.tastingtable.com/1134814/data-suggest-wendys-had-the-highest-fast-food-price-hike-of-2022/).
2022 fast food that got the most expensive (https://thetakeout.com/wendys-chick-fil-a-taco-bell-more-expensive-in-2022-1849882911).
How much does a food delivery app cost you? At a minimum $19 more than the same meal in a restaurant based on April 2022 data from the largest 100 cities/metro areas. (https://www.self.inc/info/most-expensive-cities-for-food-delivery-apps/).

As free school meals end in most schools, school lunch debt is an increasing problem. TikTok to the rescue! (https://www.newsweek.com/woman-pays-off-overdue-school-lunch-accounts-tiktok-video-1757453).

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