NPR Covers the Maryland Food Stamp Challenge

Food Stamp Challenge Highlights Need for Reform

BALTIMORE, MD - Try spending no more than 21 dollars on food and beverages over seven days. That's what people taking Maryland's Food Stamp Challenge are doing this week. This national campaign sets out to raise awareness about living on the average food stamp benefit of three dollars per day. WYPR's Stephanie Marudas reports.

On Day 1 of the Food Stamp Challenge, Kevin McGuire is shopping at Santoni's -- a family-owned supermarket in East Baltimore. Grocery basket in hand, McGuire is Maryland's Food Stamp director. He paces the aisles looking how to spend 21 dollars on food that will last him seven days. (Click here to read the rest of the story...)