A dozen truckloads of food for hungry residents in Vermont aren't coming, now that federal funding is being cut. ...

The Texas Senate passed a bill restricting SNAP benefits from buying junk food like soda and candy. It now heads to the House ...

Nutritionists agree reducing the amount of sugar people consume would be good for the Nation's health. But the plan to block ...

The Texas Senate passed a bill on Monday night that would prohibit SNAP recipients from buying things like soda, chips, and ...

About 1.2 million veterans live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps).[1] Thousands of veterans in every state — ...

Currently, SNAP contains a provision that limits purchases to food that needs to be prepared at home before it is consumed or specifically cold prepared foods. The Hot Foods Act would remove this ...

House Bill 109, which has now passed both Idaho's Senate and House of Representatives, would ban candy and soda from being ...

Welcome to the second episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and ...

Congress may soon consider reducing spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a key way the government helps low-income Americans.

Idaho is considering a bill to seek a federal waiver to forbid food stamps from being used to buy soda and candy, in order to ...

The Trump Administration and congressional Republicans seem poised to pursue substantial cuts to the nation’s primary food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — ...