Taxpayers are paying for unhealthy junk food sold to needy Americans through welfare benefits that contribute to chronic ...

ABC News medical correspondent and emergency room physician Dr. Darien Sutton discusses the changes to some states' programs ...

Restrictions on benefits also vary by state, adding to the confusion for the food industry. Some states are only banning ...

Changes are coming to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Six states are implementing new rules that will ...

Barbara Guinn, commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, estimates that around ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially approved West Virginia’s plan to disallow the use of federal food ...

Nutrition and public policy expert Marion Nestle answers readers' questions in this monthly column written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with ...

But the no-soda debate distracts from some of the major obstacles that SNAP participants now face. One-sixth of the country, or 47 million Americans, currently rely on food stamps to eat.

While nationally food stamp recipients are spending $4 BILLION per year on soda, in 2009, only $4 MILLION of food stamps were redeemed at farmers markets. This difference is shaped by the fact that ...

According to the USDA-funded study, shoppers using food stamps spent a larger share of their budget — 9.25% to be exact — on sugar-sweetened beverages than other shoppers.

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...