Increased Access to Local Produce Is Leading to Healthier Lives for SNAP Recipients
“In the Centennial state, Double Up provides Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients $1 for every $1 they spend, up to $20 per market visit per day. Farmer’s market managers swipe food-aid participants electronic benefit transfer cards and hand them $20 in colorful vouchers and $20 in SNAP benefits to redeem at participating vendors.”