"SNAP" Out Of It
True or false: College students cannot receive SNAP (food stamp) benefits
What is FALSE?
This legislation will make it easier for tenants to sue their landlord when their landlord doesn't give them their security deposit back.
What is the Right to Sue Landlords in Small Claims Court?
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 2024, this number of New Yorkers use SNAP.
What is 2.6 million NYers?
This bill would make it easier for homeless students to apply for a financial aid program.
What is TAP for homeless students?
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?
Who helped pass the policy that requires all CUNY campuses to have a food pantry?
What is NYPIRG?
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%?
This is an event you could host on campus that teaches students about their rights and the laws of being a renter.
What is the Tenants' Rights Workshop
This is the name of the NYPIRG issue area that allows for chapter brainstorming for many local campus events and drives?
What is the Hunger and Housing project?