Ohio food pantries face state and federal funding cuts amid rising demand, leaving shelves emptier and families with fewer ...

Janelle Smith-Dozier has been watching news of cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with fear and heartbreak. About four years ago, a brain condition forced Smith-Dozier to retire, ...

Lawmakers came back to Raleigh where they passed a stripped down budget that begins to take into account deep federal cuts to HHS spending.

On this day in 1965, Pzresident Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become ...

The projected $1.1 billion hole in Michigan’s upcoming budget will likely put a wrench into ongoing negotiations over a long-term road funding plan.

The Victoria Advocate reports that the Food Bank of the Golden Crescent has received about 40 percent less food so far this ...

Americans broadly support increasing or maintaining funding for safety net programs, including Social Security and Medicare, ...

SNAP is funded by federal tax dollars but administered by state governments, and states can make changes by submitting waivers to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Revising what SNAP ...

‘How do we make sure people aren’t going hungry?’: North Dakota braces for changes to SNAP Around 48,700 North Dakotans rely on the federal food assistance program. After the passage of the ...

Some area food pantries are already gearing up for a possible rise in families who may lose some or all of their FoodShare benefits.