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The Senate is looking to have states pay more for SNAP, but Colorado officials say the result will be smaller benefits for ...
Fearing deep cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet convened a group of anti-hunger ...
We all must employ our imaginations and pave pathways toward a food culture where access to food, land and watersheds is ...
While details and funding for a revamped food box idea are scant, food banks, researchers and anti-hunger groups have noted ... “I think the biggest concern really is how do you do something ...
Patient advocacy groups and anti-hunger organizations urged Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty to vote against a provision in President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful ...
(NEXSTAR) – On May 19, Nebraska became the first state in the country to obtain a waiver from the USDA to ban residents from purchasing sugary drinks with benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition ...
But anti-hunger advocates maintain ... "We do expect that big concern of state burdens and state cost share being detrimental to all SNAP recipients in some way, or recipients in every state ...
could hurt scores of vulnerable groups like veterans, seniors, and children. SNAP is the nation’s largest anti-hunger initiative — some 42 million Americans or roughly one out of every eight ...
Anti-hunger advocates ... nutrition and reducing hunger," said Gina Plata-Nino, a deputy director at the Food Research & Action Center, a nonprofit advocacy group. SNAP is a roughly $100 billion ...
House GOP’s SNAP proposal sparks concern from Senate Republicans Anti-hunger advocates have criticized ... a deputy director at the nonprofit advocacy group Food Research & Action Center ...
Congress was in recess, and Boozman was there to praise the “Add Milk!” program, an incentive for food stamps recipients that ...
SNAP, the largest anti-hunger program nationwide, has traditionally been solely federally funded, and state leaders have expressed concerns that introducing cost-sharing will harm state budgets.