STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AN IMPENDING CHANGE to link MassHealth applicants to a food assistance program will serve as an “important step” toward removing barriers that limit hundreds of thousands of Bay Staters from accessing available benefits, advocates said Thursday as they renewed calls to take the effort even further. A top Baker administration official […]
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24% of Mass. residents facing food insecurity
NEARLY A QUARTER of Massachusetts residents (24 percent) say they have either struggled to provide enough food for their family or have gotten food from a food bank since the coronavirus crisis began, according to a new poll released this week by the MassINC Polling Group. These measures of food insecurity are more common among […]
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Farm food benefits program revived
AFTER A NEARLY two-week hiatus, Massachusetts plans to use $2 million in new state funds to restart a program that lets SNAP recipients receive additional money to buy fresh produce. The program will begin again on Friday. “It’s great to see the administration and Legislature supporting the program so it can operate the way it’s […]
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Taco showdown will show Boston’s true colors
There’s enough out there today about the Democrats’ ongoing circular firing squad, the Globe’s flip-flop on Elizabeth Warren, and the coronavirus that might be coming for us all. Let’s turn instead to a very tangible, easy to digest question: Will we or won’t we be able to grab a taco in downtown Boston at 1 […]
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Taco showdown will show Boston’s true colors
There’s enough out there today about the Democrats’ ongoing circular firing squad, the Globe’s flip-flop on Elizabeth Warren, and the coronavirus that might be coming for us all. Let’s turn instead to a very tangible, easy to digest question: Will we or won’t we be able to grab a taco in downtown Boston at 1 […]
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State suspending farm food benefits program
AT A MONTHLY WINTER FARMERS market run by Roots Rising in Pittsfield, shoppers can buy apples, canned tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, onions, and winter squash. A shopper using SNAP benefits can spend $1 to buy $2 of produce under the state’s Healthy Incentives Program, or HIP. But as of Feb. 24, shoppers on public benefits will […]