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Across Texas, families rely on nutrition education programs that do more than provide information. These programs prevent disease, support healthier decisions, and strengthen communities.

One of the largest programs supporting this work is SNAP-Ed. But right now, it is at risk.

A proposal from the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture would eliminate the federal funding that supports SNAP-Ed. That includes the grants that power nutrition education in schools, clinics, food banks, and farmers markets. This would represent the largest rollback of food assistance infrastructure in recent history. The consequences would ripple through every corner of our state.

What is SNAP-Ed?

SNAP-Ed is the education and prevention arm of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Known in Texas as Good Food, Good Move, it supports 16 implementing agencies that:

• Teach parents how to prepare healthier meals on a budget
• Help children build lifelong habits around nutrition
• Deliver chronic disease prevention strategies to high-need communities
• Partner with food banks, farmers markets, and local clinics to improve health outcomes

This is not a direct benefits program. It is a support system. SNAP-Ed ensures Texans can turn food access into food security and long-term health. Eliminating it would harm families, clinics, schools, food banks, and health-centered organizations like Healthier Texas. These are the very networks working to improve lives through education and prevention.

What Texans Stand to Lose

If Congress eliminates SNAP-Ed funding:

• Nutrition classes in schools and communities will disappear
• Local farmers will lose revenue as SNAP outreach and education declines
• Clinics and food banks will lose a key prevention partner
• Families will lose the knowledge and skills that help them thrive

This is not about reducing waste or increasing efficiency. It is about removing programs that work and replacing them with nothing.

A decision like this does not only affect public health. It affects workforce readiness, economic productivity, and long-term health care costs.

A Healthy Texas Is a Strong Texas

Cuts to SNAP-Ed will hurt seniors, children, and working families. These are the very people doing their best to stay healthy in a challenging economy.

These cuts will also weaken the systems that keep communities strong. At a time when Texas faces rising rates of chronic disease and food insecurity, eliminating preventive programs will move us in the wrong direction.

The return on investment is clear. For every dollar spent on programs like SNAP-Ed, health care costs drop by more than three dollars. In some studies, the return has been as high as six to one. This is not charity. It is common sense.

What You Can Do

Texans have a chance to act now.

• Contact your U.S. Representative and Senators: https://rallystarter.com/rally/2583/use-your-voice-protect-snap-and-snap-ed-now
• Tell them to oppose the elimination of SNAP-Ed
• Share this message with your networks, community groups, and local leaders
• Use our toolkit and take action now: https://bitcodingacademy.space/protect-snap-ed/

You do not need to know every detail of the policy process to make a difference. You just need to care enough to speak up.

SNAP-Ed is prevention. SNAP-Ed is essential.

Eliminating it will cost more. In lives. In dollars. In long-term community health.

This moment matters. Speak out.