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Leaders from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services held a virtual educational briefing on Tuesday. The goal was to clarify how federal proposals in the House and Senate could impact recipients of Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in North Carolina.

Recipients of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina’s Link2Feed cardholders can visit the museum for $3.

Nearly half of the people on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — also known as SNAP — experienced food insecurity during the pandemic. That’s up from a quarter of recipients prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.