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Field Reports

Untangling the Lines: Using Phone-Based Assistance to Increase Access to Food Stamps

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Rachel Winch, Emerson Fellow
Published 2008

Oakland, California

Untangling the Lines: Using Phone-Based Assistance to Increase Access to Food Stamps documents efforts throughout the nation to improve access to food stamps using phone-based assistance.  The report examines potential opportunities for future phone-based food stamp applications and case management using telephonic signatures.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Domestic Federal Nutrition Programs, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps - SNAP/Food Stamp Recipients

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Rachel Winch

Emerson Fellow

Rachel graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Williams College in 2006 with a double major in sociology and Asian studies and has studied abroad in India and Nicaragua. Prior to becoming and Emerson and then a Leland Fellow, Rachel taught fifth and sixth grade at Esperanza Academy, a tuition-free middle school for low-income girls in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and biked across the country to raise money for affordable housing.

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