I’m speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 25-28. I don’t have details yet, but will post when I do.
I’m on the advisory committee for SNAP to Health, a project of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, chaired by Dr. Susan Blumenthal.
The Commission released its report on Wednesday in Washington DC at a congressional briefing at which I (and several others) spoke.
The report, Snap to Health, is online at this link. Its recommendations are here.
The major points made at the briefing:
As I discussed in my remarks (which are also supposed to be posted on SnapToHealth.org soon), food companies and retailers specifically target marketing efforts to low-income groups and to SNAP participants. No such efforts market healthier foods to EBT users.
Michele Simon’s recent report documents the extensive lobbying efforts of food companies to make sure that SNAP recipients can use EBT cards to buy their products.
The Snap to Health report is meant to start a national conversation about helping this program to address twenty-first century health challenges.
Let the conversation begin!