News coverage about the Healthy Incentives Program:
- Food & Farm: A ‘HIP’ way to bolster food security
- Our View: Benefiting from the fruits of local labor
- Funding for Healthy Incentives Program restored
- Farm food benefits program revived
- State House backs $2M more for HIP program
- Local farm advocates for funding state Health Incentive Program
- Our view: Healthy food program needs more funding
- State suspending farm food benefits program
- Healthy Incentives Program worth year-round investment
- We must fund the Healthy Incentives Program
- State suspends HIP from Feb. 23 to May 15
- Healthy families and sustainable farms for every season
- Column: Healthy answer to food access depends on state funding
- My Turn: Local action can have an impact on food, farms and hunger
- Healthy Incentives Program extended through February
- Healthy Incentives Program will continue through February
- Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) to run on seasonal schedule for farmers market shoppers
- HIP to shut off benefits before Thanksgiving
- Speaker DeLeo Visits Revere Farmers Market to Celebrate Healthy Incentives Program
- No lapse in win-win app for farmers, low income families
- Our View: Solution needed to continue low-income program for farmers’ markets
- Low-Income Access To Fresh Produce In Massachusetts Snarled In Tech Problem
- Healthy Incentives Program restored in state budget
- Fresh-food program’s success cannot be its downfall
- Healthy incentives program went over its budget
- Our View: Healthy Incentives Program a success in multiple ways
- Funding for Healthy Incentives Program dries up
- Legislators seek more funds for Healthy Incentives Program
- State lawmakers vow to revive Healthy Incentives Program
- Hunger, health and local farmers
- Local pols hope to continue Healthy Incentives Program
- HIP replacement well worth the money
- HIP, a win-win for supporting local agriculture, deserves our support
- The Healthy Incentives Program is so popular, its future is now in doubt
- Hunger, health and local farmers
- Program matching SNAP dollars at farmer’s markets out of money this spring
- Future of Healthy Incentives Program uncertain
- Editorial: Healthy Incentives Program is far too important to let fail
- Of the Earth: A shot to the HIP
- Slashes may come to SNAP, HIP looking at suspension
- Rewards program encourages SNAP recipients to make healthy choices
- State should fund fresh-veggies budget
- State’s produce program for SNAP participants in jeopardy
- State program offering farm fresh food to SNAP recipients in jeopardy
- Fresh Food Program’s Success In Mass. Contributes To Its Demise
- More than $2.5 Million in HIP Incentives Earned
- Of the Earth: Hip takes on a whole new meaning
- Farmers’ markets hoping for busy winter season
- Improving health in Lynn, one farmer’s market at a time
- The HIP program: Making healthy eating affordable
- Lawmakers looking to increase access to healthy food for families on SNAP
- Lawrence farmers market expands as demand surges: New state subsidies of up to $80 a month triple sales
- Coastal Foodshed, Healthy Incentives Program work to provide more food access
- Farmers, families in need reap benefits from produce program
- Healthy Incentives Program: Off to a great start
- State and Local Officials Celebrate Start of Winter Farmers’ Market Season
- Better Access to Healthy, Local Foods for Thousands in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts commits $1.35 million to SNAP for farm food purchases
- SNAP credit will help the needy enjoy a farm-fresh diet
- In New Mass. SNAP Program, Local Fruit And Veggies Come With A Refund
Background information on the Healthy Incentives Program:
The Healthy Incentives Program is an expansion of a very successful pilot program run in Hampden County in 2011-12.
