Advocates in the field say many of New Hampshire’s most vulnerable households are trapped in a double bind these days: Continued inflation is pushing the prices of essentials like groceries ever higher, at the same time that several pandemic-era safety net programs have been rolled back.
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Laura Milliken is executive director and Jessica Gorhan is deputy director for NH Hunger Solutions. Learn more at nhhungersolutions.org. We want to ensure every New Hampshire resident has the nutrition they need to be healthy and well because hunger.
For most of the pandemic, families didn’t have to apply for the benefit. But federal lawmakers declined to extend an income requirement waiver for this school year.
In sparsely populated parts of N.H., grocery stores are fewer, placing an extra burden on people without cars and making shopping trips more expensive due to the cost of gas.