{"id":371466,"date":"2026-08-14T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371466\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:38:07","slug":"expert-weighs-in-as-snap-cuts-hit-florida-families-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371466\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert weighs in as SNAP cuts hit Florida families hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Florida\u2019s SNAP enrollment has dropped. It tumbled by roughly 21%, with more than half a million residents losing food assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The drop is driven by federal work requirement expansions and funding cuts from the 2025 federal budget law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Sadaf Knight, CEO of Florida Policy Institute, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss the implications. He says it impacts nutrition and health care at a time when affordability is a major problem for many Floridians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorBruce Hamilton headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/PACZ7W5PHJGPHOKHBWB2X2LCVM\/\" title=\"View Bruce Hamilton&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Hamilton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">This Emmy Award-winning television, radio and newspaper journalist has anchored The Morning Show for 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s SNAP enrollment has dropped. It tumbled by roughly 21%, with more than half a million residents losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,571,2159,139,141,140,99,414],"class_list":["post-371466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-health","tag-money","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-snap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}