The SNAP program is designed to help low-income individuals purchase essential food items. The program provides extra ...
Several states will begin restricting the types of food and drink that can be purchased with Supplemental Nutrition ...
The USDA has a $5 billion contingency fund for the program, but the Trump administration had reversed an earlier agency plan to use that money to keep SNAP running. Dairy products, which are covered ...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has helped low-income Americans buy groceries for decades with few disruptions. But on Nov. 1, 2025, the federal government halted the flow of funds to ...
Armstrong Williams did a great service to all in helping us understand the problems with the SNAP program (“The uncomfortable truth about SNAP,” Nov. 4). As stated, the program was never meant to be ...
Under U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s “Make America Healthy Again” ( MAHA) initiative, ...
Some 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images News Tracy Roof, University of Richmond The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has ...