A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s efforts to force states to comply with certain conditions in order to get ...

County leaders in California are speaking out against major federal cuts to SNAP, the food assistance program that helps low-income families buy groceries. Last summer, Republicans in Congress voted ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don’t provide data on ...

Advocates claim new federal eligibility rules are pushing people out of the food assistance program.

Just as the beginning of a new year is a time for families to figure out their finances, the same is true for state legislatures. In the coming months, the majority of states will be penning their ...

A loophole in the federal SNAP program allows households with significant assets to qualify for aid, diverting resources from ...

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. There have been a lot of changes ...

Millions of families rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to help put food on the table. Now a battle over personal data could impact how that help gets delivered. The Trump ...

Stricter CalFresh program rules are going into effect Monday as changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...