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One Year Since the Pandemic Began. What Do We Know Now That We Didn't Then?
It has officially been one year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 global pandemic. Since that time, the world has been turned upside-down with over 2.6 million deaths a...
Food Stamps: The Nutritional Benefits of Food Stamps to the American Population
Food stamps provide an essential safety net for the American population, ensuring no one goes hungry. But food stamps also offer nutritional benefits, providing low-income Americans access to hea...
Good News for SNAP Recipients; States Extend Benefits
During the height of the COVID pandemic, America spent more money on the federal level than it has at any other point in its history. This was a bipartisan spending spree too; it wasn't a Republican or Democrat thing. Bo...
Serving up the Latest Trends in the Government's SNAP and EBT Programs
Food Stamps have come a long way and actually originated during the Great Depression in Rochester, New York, in 1939. The program would reach some 20 million people, but by 1943, Food Stamps disappeare...
CDC to Release New COVID-19 Guidelines for National Parks
As the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest, one of the main reasons that viruses spread to pandemic levels is because too many people ignore the risks and go...
Self-Care Tips to Make it Through the COVID-19 Quarantine
Like nearly every other American, you are probably reading this article from your home since you have been ordered to remain there while the COVID-19 crisis unfolds. Many people could end up mired in a funk or depres...
Black Americans Are Dying from COVID-19 at an Alarming Rate. Why is This?
One of the most alarming truths to come out of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis is how the Black population is becoming sick and dying at much higher rates than the rest of the country. Older Black America...
CDC Data Reveals Women Disproportionately Suffer from Depression
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of people who never previously had depression to experience it. However, even before the pandemic, there were crisis levels of this mental health condition. The Centers fo...
How to Cope With Pandemic, Election and Holiday Stress
Dr. Astrid Pujari, who is the Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Virginia Mason, explains that people are reporting high levels of stress related to the presidential debate that took place this past Tuesd...