2300 Southern Voices Call for Help

From August 28 to September 7, 2020, the SouthStrong campaign surveyed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants in 12 Southern states. The surveys used to collect the data shared in this report were written and analyzed by the Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP), and the conclusions and calls to action belong to SEAP and their SouthStrong COVID-19 recovery campaign. The data analyzed here rely on self-reported information from 2,308 anonymized surveys. Respondents were invited to answer a mixture of multiple-choice and open-ended questions about challenges and changes in the wake of the pandemic, experiences using and applying for government benefits, and recommendations and requests for policymakers. Respondents were invited, but not required, to share their first names to be attached to quotes you see here.