This led to $1.40 per person per day increase in SNAP's average benefits, or about 70 cents per meal this is not a lot of money to begin with. However, this The 2021 update [to the Thrifty Food Plan] lifted over 2 million SNAP participants out of poverty or above the poverty line, including over 1 million children. According to the Urban Institute, the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan reduced poverty for black and Hispanic people, suggesting that re evaluation was addressing longstanding systemic racial issues. (02:51–03:24)
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Asserts that the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan update lifted over 2 million people, including 1 million children, out of poverty.
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