"SNAP" Out Of It
True or false: College students cannot receive SNAP (food stamp) benefits
What is FALSE?
This legislation will mandate food pantries to be on every college campus, and to be well funded by the government.
What is the Hunger Free Campus Act?
Name three causes of hunger in NYS in general.
What are cost of living, not having access to food, unemployment, economic inequality, etc.
This is a voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit
What is Mutual Aid?
NYPIRG was founded in this year.
What is 1973?
As of 2023, this number of New Yorkers use SNAP.
What is 2.9 million, or 1 in 7 NYers?
New York, California, Maryland, Minnesota, and New Jersey have all enacted these kinds of policies.
What are Hunger-Free Campus policies?
Name three causes of homelessness in NYS in general.
What are job loss, poverty, income inequality, affordable housing crisis, cost of living, etc.
Name at least three examples of mutual aid.
What are community Fridges, Childcare, Picking up medicine or other absolutely essential errands, Cleaning supplies, Financial support, Emotional support and socializing, Help navigating benefits processes, Language translation/support, Tech assistance, Internet access
This person is the Executive Director of NYPIRG.
Who is Meg Ahearn?
In 2022, this number of NYC residents received SNAP benefits.
What is 1.71 Million NYC residents?
This is an assistance program for women, infants, and children designed to provide food, education, and services to those in need.
What is WIC? (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
This number of students experienced food insecurity in 2021.
What is 39%?
This is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
What is a food desert?
This advocate for consumer protection helped found NYPIRG.
Who is Ralph Nader?
This is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program which provides food purchasing assistance for low income folks
What is SNAP?
This is the new bill passed by city council in the fall that no longer requires renters to pay the broker fee
What is the Fare Act?
NYS ranks here, in the top 10 states with the highest number of people experiencing homelessness.
What is #2, after California?
This activist organization can be credited for starting the free breakfast program for kindergarten through high school students.
Who are The Black Panthers?
This is the name of the drive that NYPIRG does every spring semester.
Menstrual Product Drive
What are lower grades, lower attendance, delayed graduation?
These populations are disproportionately affected by hunger and homelessness.
What are community college students, first-generation college students, and students of color
In 2021, this percentage of students experienced homelessness.
What is 14%?
As of 2023, ___ out of every ___ people in NYS experienced food insecurity.
What is 1 in 10?
This is the name of the food drive NYPIRG does in the fall, that collected over 6,000 items statewide in 2023.
What is Trick or Eat?