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You can’t use what you don’t know about

It’s all very well saying that recipients of SNAP benefits should buy healthier food from farmers’ markets, where they can also get a discount. But two new studies say that almost two-thirds of poor people have never been to a farmers’ market and three quarters did not know they got a discount there. The solution? Social media campaigns.

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