New Research Finds That Work Requirements on SNAP Don’t Increase Employment
Posted by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity on June 9, 2026
As new SNAP work requirements are going into effect across the country, advocates on the ground like Rhonda Rogombè are working to keep beneficiaries informed and avoid qualified recipients from being needlessly dropped from the rolls. Rogombè, health and safety net policy analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, has studied the impact of earlier work requirement increases put in place by the state and found they don’t increase employment.
For this Spotlight exclusive, Spotlight spoke with Rogombè about her research and the work she’s doing to build awareness in her community. “We know that the intention of this legislation is to remove people from these programs; that is where the savings are generated in this legislation,” Rogombè said. “And it is hard to overcome a system that is designed to fail. But we intend to do everything that we can to ensure that people stay connected to their care, because this will have such deep implications, not only for an individual’s health, but their familial health, their community’s health, our state economy.”
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