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  The American Rescue Plan Act includes $1 billion in funding for nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico and other territories that receive block grants for nutrition assistance instead of SNAP (formerly known as food stamps). This funding, along with other temporary nutrition assistance enacted in the last year, will help Puerto Rico meet its residents’ food needs in the coming months as it recovers from the COVID-19 crisis. Over the longer term, policymakers should address the inequity between the nutrition assistance that Puerto Rico receives through a capped block grant and what the territory would receive if it participated in SNAP. Puerto Rico entered the pandemic after more than a decade of virtually uninterrupted economic decline coupled with devastating natural disasters and an ongoing bankruptcy process. Poverty levels are high: over half of children live in poverty, and in 2015, about one-third of adults reported difficulty affording adequate food and over one-fifth rep

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