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Briana L. Broberg
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Briana L. Broberg

Briana L. Broberg was a Research Intern with MPI’s Human Services Initiative, where she contributed to research and policy analysis on topics including access to public benefits and access to humanitarian protection for vulnerable immigrants.

While in law school, Ms. Broberg completed internships with nonprofit immigration legal service providers, was awarded a Rappaport Fellowship through which she was a Public Policy Fellow with the Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, and managed an Afghan Refugee Support Project that provided legal services to Afghan asylum seekers. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history at The City College of New York and her Juris Doctor from New England Law | Boston, where she was awarded the Dean Arthur W. MacLean Founders Award for outstanding academic achievement and significant contributions to the law school community.

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Policy Briefs
March 2023
SNAP Access and Participation in U.S.-Born and Immigrant Households: A Data Profile
By  Valerie Lacarte, Lillie Hinkle and Briana L. Broberg

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Policy Briefs
March 2023

SNAP Access and Participation in U.S.-Born and Immigrant Households: A Data Profile

The U.S. government created the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, to combat food insecurity. Under federal law, many lawfully present noncitizens in poor households are ineligible. This issue brief examines the size and characteristics of the population of immigrants with incomes low enough to qualify for SNAP and their eligibility for and participation in the program, at U.S. and state levels.