Food prices are rising faster than many fixed incomes, and for older Americans that gap often shows up in the refrigerator.

Public assistance, commonly called welfare, and the SNAP program, formerly known as food stamps, are two lifelines that millions of American households depend on to stave off hunger and make ends meet ...

President Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back nearly a century in the ...

The National Governors Association joined with other organizations in a letter to Congressional leaders on Wednesday seeking ...

States have started banning junk food from SNAP. It’s not going according to plan.

The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team ...

This isn't the first time a White House administration has fought to ban junk food from food stamp purchases because of the ...

“Millions of people are going to starve to death!” That’s how one Democratic TikTok star, Chris Mowrey, described the disruptions to the food stamps program due to the federal government shutdown that ...