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Associated Press Interviews Hope Center’s Bryce McKibben about College Students and Potential Loss of Food Stamp Benefits

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Many college students who are struggling with hunger are facing the potential loss of food stamp benefits that were boosted in the pandemic. In an interview with the Associated Press, Bryce McKibben, Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, described the ending of expanded SNAP eligibility as “a slow-rolling disaster where we’re reverting to the old SNAP rules right at a time where obviously the need around food security is only going up.”