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Boca Helping Hands, which serves 35,000 people a year with food, job training and financial assistance, was already feeling ...
The original Food Stamp Program, created in 1939 by the federal government, was renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...
Fifty-kilo sacks of food hurtled out the open hatch of the cargo plane, scattering in the wind on their 1,000-foot descent to ...
As senators work out key parts of the House-passed mega bill, one portion that could impact thousands in Humboldt County is proposed slashes in federal funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...
The House-passed budget reconciliation bill promoted by the Trump administration would benefit higher earners at the expense ...
The Senate Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation bill would allow some states to avoid paying for part of the anti-hunger ...
I was glad to see your report about the state Department of Human Services initiative to counter skimming of SNAP benefits by ...
Mr. Ford has lived here in Kentucky’s Pike County all his life. Around us lay the graves of his ancestors, proud locals all.
Big changes are being are being proposed to a food aid program as part of President Donald Trump's tax-cut legislation.
House Republicans are touting that their sweeping tax and spending cuts package would kick many “illegal immigrants” off ...
Three states received federal waivers to prohibit participants in food assistance programs from buying junk food, bringing ...