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Ending SNAP Subsidies for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Could Reduce Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

This paper models the potential impact of two proposed policy changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): a ban on using SNAP dollars to buy sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs); and a subsidy structured so that for every SNAP dollar spent on fruits and vegetables, thirty cents is credited back to participants’ SNAP benefits card. Researchers More

Keywords: Body mass index (BMI), Fruits and vegetables, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Date: June 2014

Resource Type: Journal Article

Focus Areas: Beverages Nutrition Policy & Programs Pricing & Economics

Improving Healthy Eating Among Children Through Changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Policies: An Economic Microsimulation

Over 10 million children participate in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Recent proposed policy changes have suggested banning or taxing the use of SNAP benefits for sugar-sweetened beverage purchases and/or subsidizing fruit and vegetable purchases with SNAP benefits. Several uncertainties about these proposed policies remain unanswered: 1) How will substitution of some products More

Keywords: Body mass index (BMI), Food insecurity, Fruits and vegetables, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Taxes

Date: September 2013

Resource Type: Grant Summary

Focus Areas: Nutrition Policy & Programs Pricing & Economics