SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has proven vital in preventing food insecurity and hunger, especially amongst lower-income households.

Colorado and Texas are among the states aiming to change what food and drink can be bought with SNAP benefits.

SNAP education programs across the country had their funding cut under the One Big Beautiful Bill. In Nebraska, numerous nutrition programs and university jobs are at risk.

The 32-year-old program that supports community gardens, nutrition education and other community-based activities employs 176 people.

What are SNAP benefits? The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is how the federal government helps people buy food if they cannot afford it.

Parents of children 14 and older would have to meet the program’s work requirements. There’s also a proposed new $35 co-payment that can be charged to patients using Medicaid services. Some 80 million ...

Senate Republicans’ latest version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes notable tweaks to the party’s proposals to reduce federal spending for Supplemental Nutrition ...

The proposal would require states to share the cost of federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in what would be a major change to the program’s structure, with the cost ...

Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) announced the Senate parliamentarian on Thursday had approved a new version of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill’s cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also ...

Other people at risk of losing SNAP assistance entirely or seeing their family’s benefits cut (under both the revised and original Senate Agriculture Committee plans) include veterans, people ...

Baraka says the data proves it's time to discuss the program's expansion, as Newark participants saw decreased homelessness and stress.

A spokesperson for the Senate Agriculture Committee said Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough appears open to a revised Republican proposal to shift some costs for food assistance to states ...