Cutting SNAP Means Cutting Lifelines: The Trump Administration’s Deliberate Attack on Women and Children
The government-backed decision to cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the latest gender-based attack in policy form. Across the so-called United States, women, especially single mothers, disproportionately rely on SNAP to feed their families. Nearly two-thirds of adult SNAP recipients are women, many of whom are holding families together through low-wage work and unpaid labor of caregiving.