BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency ...

Three reports released Thursday afternoon by the McKee administration spell out how those changes will be felt in Rhode Island. In its report, the Rhode Island Department of Revenue estimates ...

Due to the ongoing United States government shutdown, federal food and nutrition assistance payments will stop on November 1, leaving millions of citizens relying on programs such as the Supplemental ...

As the federal government shutdown stretches to its one-month mark, hundreds of thousands of Iowans are bracing for November without food assistance. Local food pantries say they face an ...

Nonperishables are seen on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at the Jay Baptist Church food pantry. Luisa S. Deprez is professor emerita of sociology and social policy at the University of Southern Maine. She is a ...

IN NEED. I JUST WORRY ABOUT I WORRY ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT IF THEY’RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANYTHING, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO? JOAN MCDONALD SAYS SHE ONCE RELIED ON FOOD STAMPS TO PROVIDE FOR HER ...

WASHINGTON — Well before the nearly monthlong federal government shutdown put the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, on the cusp of lapsing in November, significant changes ...

With federal SNAP food assistance set to run dry this weekend amid the protracted U.S. government shutdown, Louisiana, New Mexico and Vermont became the latest states Wednesday announcing they will ...

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One of the most severe impacts of the US government shutdown is the impending November 1 expiration of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps.