Around 42 million low-income Americans rely on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, ...

On October 1, 2025, the U.S. government shut down after Congress failed to pass the 12 annual appropriations bills ...

Food stamp recipients are now receiving their November benefits, but a growing swath of enrollees may soon lose their vital ...

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 ...

Tennessee House members passed a bill this spring directing the state government to seek a first-of-its-kind federal waiver ...

The shutdown brought the scale of the federal food aid program into focus and raised questions about how such a rich country could have so many people on nutrition assistance. By David W. Chen The ...