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| Sep 24, 2026 | More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps.
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| Sep 15, 2026 | Global Currents: Innovation, Sustainability, and Society's Future | Global industries are undergoing profound shifts. Innovation redefines daily life, from smart home devices to AI-driven workplaces. Sustainability and green practices emerge as critical priorities, shaping urban development, data centers, a... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | SNAP cuts could lead to kids losing free school breakfast and lunch | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch.
More than 1 mill... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | California celebrates nearly 3.5 billion universal school meals served | California leads the nation in protecting student health, ensuring access to food
In 2021, Governor Newsom signed a landmark budget agreement with the Legislature to launch a universal school meals program for the 2022-2023 school year. Thi... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Judge blocks states from excluding soda and candy from SNAP | Listen to the article 5 min
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| Jun 18, 2026 | More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple protei... |
| May 30, 2026 | At least 3.5 million people have lost food stamp access as Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ cuts take effect, analysis finds | Consumers are facing higher costs when it comes to food, gas and other necessary items.
More than 3.5 million beneficiaries of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides food benefits to low-income indivi... |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Veterans, rural residents, older adults may lose food stamps due to Trump work requirements | By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
States are rushing to inform some residents who rely on food stamps that they will soon be forced to meet work requirements or lose their food assistance. Related Articles
Trump administration narrows list of p... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | New work rules could deny food stamps to thousands of veterans | “I’m pissed. I mean, I cannot get a job. Nowhere to live,” said Kamara. As he spoke, Kamara pointed to his collared shirt, noting that he had just dressed up to interview for a job as a security guard. He learned that morning he hadn’t gott... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Joint Statement: California Stakeholders Condemn Senate Budget Bill’s Historic Threat to SNAP and Families and Workers | PASADENA, CA, UNITED STATES, July 1, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- California’s SNAP stakeholders — including grocers, county administrators, labor unions, public health and anti-hunger advocates — are sounding the alarm on the Senate’s budget... |
| Jun 1, 2025 | Social Security checks may be smaller starting in June for some, as student loan garnishments begin | The Trump administration warned that Social Security benefits could be garnished for defaulted student loans as early as June.
Here’s what borrowers need to know about their rights, and available relief options.
Some recipients can expect t... |
| May 21, 2025 | The Battle Over Boundaries: Navigating New Laws in a Digital Age and Dietary Choices | In a world where the lines between personal freedom and societal protection blur, two recent legislative moves have sparked intense debate. One tackles the digital landscape, while the other addresses dietary choices. Both reflect a growing... |
| May 21, 2025 | The Tightrope of Change: Trump’s Legislative Gamble and Nebraska’s SNAP Shift | In the heart of American politics, two stories unfold, each a reflection of the nation's complex relationship with governance and public health. One story centers on a legislative bill championed by former President Donald Trump, teetering ... |
| May 21, 2025 | A Double-Edged Sword: The New Federal Law Against Revenge Porn and Nebraska's SNAP Restrictions | In a world where digital footprints are indelible, the recent signing of a bill to make posting “revenge porn” a federal crime has sparked a whirlwind of debate. This legislation, backed by both sides of the aisle, aims to protect victims f... |
| May 19, 2025 | Nebraska to ban soda and energy drinks from SNAP under first USDA waiver | Rollins called Monday’s move “a historic step to Make America Healthy again.”
Details of Nebraska’s waiver, which takes effect Jan. 1, weren’t immediately available. Anti-hunger advocates criticized it, saying it adds costs, boosts administ... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Food industry bristles as states move to ban soda, candy from SNAP | Listen to the article 3 min
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Republican states are moving to ban consumers from using government food assistance benefits on candy and soda, prompting backlas... |
| Feb 19, 2025 | National Politics | Trump officials want to ban junk food from SNAP. Past efforts show it’s not easy to do | “When a taxpayer is putting money into SNAP, are they OK with us using their tax dollars to feed really bad food and sugary drinks to children who perhaps need something more nutritious?” Rollins said. “These are all massive questions we’re... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | The Ripple Effect of Trump's Tariffs on the Food Industry | The recent victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 election has sent shockwaves through the food and beverage industry. His proposed tariffs, a cornerstone of his economic strategy, threaten to reshape the landscape of American agriculture and ... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | ‘Four more years of chaos…’ Food & ag organizations respond to Trump victory | A resounding win for Donald Trump in the US election is prompting enthusiasm in some quarters of the food industry and intense anxiety in others.
Given the lack of detail in the official Republican party platform on food and ag, meanwhile, ... |
| Aug 6, 2024 | FRAC Report Highlights Critical Need to Enhance Access to Summer Nutrition Programs to Address Childhood Hunger | WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report released today by the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) reveals a drop in children participating in the Summer Nutrition Programs following the loss of pandemic-era waivers.
FRAC'... |
| Mar 24, 2024 | Republican budget proposal would do away with universal free school lunches | Politics Republican budget proposal would do away with universal free school lunches
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| Mar 15, 2024 | Children face hunger across Deep South after states refuse summer food aid | The day school gets out for summer sparkles in the American imagination as a vision of children spilling out of classrooms into joyful weeks of freedom and warmth.
But in reality, the summer months bring something else for millions of child... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | Patientory Wallet launches telehealth service for GLP-1, raises additional funding | Over the past decade, the United States has been actively contending with obesity rates, with almost 40% of US adults being obese and a further 31.5% being overweight. To combat rising rates and promote healthier lifestyles, Patientory – a ... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | Scoop: Iowa reverses course on federal food aid | Iowa, which had planned to snub $29 million in federal food aid, has apparently reversed course.
Driving the news: Alex Carfrae, a spokesperson for the state Department of Health and Human Services, told Axios late Tuesday that Iowa will ap... |
| Jun 7, 2023 | House Proposal Would Restore Expanded And Improved Monthly Child Tax Credits | Portrait Of Excited Elementary School Pupils On Playing Field At Break Timegetty |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Food insecurity is a healthcare issue. Here are 5 ways healthcare can proactively address food insecurity | According to USDA statistics, 41 million Americans are food insecure, which is directly related to living below the poverty line. 90% of those affected by hunger are children, and 10% by adults. Given the rising inflation and war in Ukraine... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Get to Know the 2022 Student Basic Needs Spark Grantees | Home to nearly three million postsecondary students and some of the highest cost of living cities in the nation, California is uniquely positioned to tackle the basic needs crisis impacting college students. Recent studies have shown that 3... |
| Oct 23, 2022 | Editorials
Editorials | Editorial: Prop FF is laudable, but structure merits concerns | No child should ever be hungry. Colorado Proposition FF, the Healthy School Meals for All Program, would provide free school lunches to all public school students in the state. Unfortunately, the structure and funding mechanism give us seri... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency | Expansions to social safety net programs during Covid-19 have been essential for low-income Americans hit hard by the pandemic. But the stabilizing impact of these expansions will be at risk when the federal Covid-19 Public Health Emergency... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | GRACE & End Child Poverty CA Welcomes National Anti-Hunger Advocate Andrew Cheyne as New Managing Director of Policy | Andrew Cheyne is GRACE's Managing Director of Public Policy.
Cheyne brings more than a decade of policy advocacy experience to the movement to end poverty for California’s children
I could not be more excited that after working to end child... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Inflation is hurting women at the grocery store. Some are eating less in order to feed their families. | This story was originally published by The 19th.
The price sticker startled Tammy Ferrell. She looked at the variety pack of FritoLay chips again and again. Her forehead wrinkled. Surely, she must have misunderstood—the chips used to be $12... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Biden Administration Announces Historic Increase To Food Stamp Benefits | Effective October 1, average SNAP monthly benefits will increase by $36.24 per person, exclusive of ... [+] pandemic-related additional funds.getty |
| Apr 16, 2021 | USDA Settles Cases, Expands Food Stamp Benefits For Lowest-Income Households | The nation's lowest-income households will soon see additional food assistance benefits due to the ... [+] USDA's recent expansion of pandemic-related emergency food stamp allotments.getty |
| Dec 16, 2020 | These 8 Social Entrepreneurs Used Tech To Meet The Challenges Of 2020 | Fast Forward |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Covid-19 is temporary. The health ramifications of failing to provide adequate economic relief may last decades | The rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine across the U.S. that began this week suggests that dramatic disruptions to daily life may come to an end within the next year.
Even as Americans anticipate a return to a post-Covid-19 world, it is important... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Federal Courts Protecting Food Stamp Coverage During COVID-19 Pandemic | Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, at least two federal courts have issued rulings denying limitations on ... [+] food stamp protections as “illogical” or “contrary to law.”getty |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Meet mRelief, The Nonprofit Using Technology To Fight Hunger | mRelief |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Report: Pandemic Food Benefits Work To Address Food Insecurity | School closures mean decreased access to school meals for those on free- or reduced-price meal ... [+] programs. Research from the Brookings Institution demonstrates that pandemic food benefits decreased food hardship by 30% within the firs... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Pandemic Food Benefits: Only 2 States Approved To Date | The newly-created P-EBT program would provide thousands of low-income families with eligible ... [+] children over $110 per child per month while schools are closed. To date, only nine states have applied to start a program, and only two ha... |
| Mar 16, 2020 | Coronavirus Forces Millions Of Students Online, But Not All May Benefit | 13 March 2020, Bavaria, Straubing: ILLUSTRATION - "Coronavirus" is written on a blackboard in an ... [+] empty classroom in the Pope Benedict School. Because of the coronavirus crisis, schools and kindergartens in Bavaria are to b... |
| Aug 2, 2018 | Dear Congress: SNAP work requirements will harm health, not improve nutrition | We see the value of the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) almost every day. It allows some of our patients to meet a basic human need: to eat. In our medical practices, we are intimately aware of the inex... |
| Nov 22, 2017 | In a land of plenty, a food bank and a health insurer team up to take on food insecurity | Thanksgiving is a day of abundant food — except for the 42 million Americans who live each day not knowing where their next meal is coming from. They are the “food insecure.” Not only are they often hungry, but without access to fresh, heal... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Pivotal Living fitness band and smart scale reviewed: $12 a year, well spent | reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating, including story author
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| Jul 13, 2015 | Are We Treating Symptoms While Ignoring Causes? | If Mary doesn’t change her behaviors such as diet, physician activity and managing her insulin, she will negate the good work of the providers in the hospital. Did her behaviors cause her health conditions and thus her hospital stay?
Are be... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | America's Economy Is Recovering, But Its Food Security Isn't | As the holiday season ramps up and cooks everywhere prepare to fill their tables with burnished roasts, bubbling pies, and heaps of holiday cookies, a sobering fact runs counter to the seasonal excess: in America—the wealthiest country in t... |
| Jul 3, 2014 | How A Former Google Data Guy Could Change What We Eat For Breakfast | Hampton Creek, the plant-based egg startup known for its product “Just Mayo,” launched in Dollar Tree this week and is expanding its operations to a 90k square-footfacility in the heart of San Francisco in the next few months. On top of tha... |
| Are We Treating Symptoms While Ignoring Causes? | Mary is admitted to the hospital with symptoms caused by high blood sugar. She has type 2 diabetes and is overweight. The hospital staff restores her fluids and insulin to proper levels. Did her health conditions cause her hospital stay?
Ar... |
| Kudos to schools for more free meals | COURTESY PIXABAY
“Hawaii ranks 47th in the nation for low-income students’ participation in school breakfast. Expanding the free meals program is one important improvement,” writes Nicole Woo.
While it is true that only “20 percent of conve... |
| These states are restoring free school meals for all kids, regardless of income | Congress made free school meals available to all children, regardless of family income, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, the policy was not renewed for the 2022-23 school year.
Nine states have passed legislation to bring back free sc... |
| Millions at risk of losing health insurance if U.S. ends Covid public health emergency in January | When the public health emergency does end, HHS estimates up to 15 million people will be disenrolled from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
HHS will give the public 60 days notice before lifting the public health emergen... |
| Living only on Social Security can be difficult. There are many resources that can help struggling seniors | Among older Americans, around 12% of men and 15% of women rely on their monthly Social Security check for nearly all of their income.
For many households, the benefit isn’t enough to cover their bills.
Fortunately, there are thousands of pu... |
| What to do when your monthly Social Security check isn’t enough | There are many resources to which retirees worried about meeting their bills amid inflation can turn.
Here are some of them. |
| Struggling to pay your bills in retirement? These resources can help | Many Americans retire without enough in savings.
These resources can help them make ends meet. |
| ‘Huge hunger cliff’ looms, warns expert: Average recipient to get $90 less in food stamps as Covid aid ends | In March, 32 states and Washington, D.C., will end emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid that helped individuals and families cope with food insecurity during the pandemic.
The average person is projected to receive about ... |
| More schools will offer kids meals for free | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Some 17,000 public school students will be eligible to receive free meals at their schools regardless of their family’s ability to pay, under plans announced Tuesday by ... |
| Retirees could see their monthly Social Security checks jump by $175 next year. Is that enough to keep up with inflation? | Social Security recipients may see one of the biggest cost-of-living adjustments in decades in 2023.
For many retirees, it will still be hard to pay their bills amid rising prices.
Here are some of the other resources to which they can turn... |
| 4 ways Americans will get hammered with benefit cuts once COVID-19 is no longer deemed an official public health emergency | COVID-19 vaccines may start costing more money if the public health emergency ends. Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Images
The federal government renewed a public health emergency declaration earlier this mont... |
| Access to free meals at schools could mean lower grocery bills and healthier food purchases | Access to free meals at schools could mean lower grocery bills and healthier food purchases: Image: Adobe stock
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