Arkansas SNAP recipients will no longer be able to use their benefits to buy soft drinks or candy starting Wednesday, under a waiver submitted by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR).
“We want to make Arkansans more and more healthy, and by incentivizing those types of purchases, that is exactly what we’re going to do,” Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday in a video posted on X.
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