Lauren Schuyler Featured in Moneywise.
Congratulations to Lauren Schuyler, assistant research director of the Family Welfare Research and Training Group at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, for sharing her expertise in Moneywise. Schuyler highlighted how changes to SNAP could increase poverty and food insecurity and create barriers to school meals for children.
“Increased poverty is a real concern with these changes,” Schuyler told Moneywise.
The article explores expanded work requirements, changes to parental exemptions, and growing financial pressures on states, with perspectives from researchers and food assistance leaders on the consequences for communities.