Pennsylvania’s Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro has included two new charitable feeding plans in his proposed state budget—free breakfast to all students and a new state fund to raise the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) minimum monthly benefit by 50 percent.
SNAP is federally funded, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture sending money to states which administer the program. Finding state money to bolster the benefit is a new idea in Pennsylvania.
