Boca Helping Hands Executive Director Andrew Hagen shares how the new food pyramid changes the priorities of food banks ...

Food assistance does more good when it doesn't make people feel bad for needing help. SolStock/E+ via Getty Images The 2025 government shutdown drew widespread attention to how many Americans struggle ...

SUN Bucks provides $120 in grocery benefits across a summer per eligible school-age child. The federal government covers the ...

Backed by the Trump administration, more than a dozen states are moving to ban candy and snack foods from SNAP food assistance programs in 2026.

Lee will seek new funding for the state’s smaller-scale summer feeding programs when he proposes the state budget next month.

Governor Bill Lee's decision to opt out of the federal Summer EBT program dims hopes for thousands of Tennessee families ...

Customers shop at a grocery store. Distributing food stamps soon could get even harder for Missouri’s food aid system, which a federal judge has already called “broken and inaccessible.” States depend ...

Editor’s note: This article was fist published by The Conversation, a content partner of The Associated Press. See it online at theconversation.com. The 2025 government shutdown drew widespread ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The 2025 government shutdown drew widespread attention to how many Americans struggle to get enough food. For 43 days, the more than 42 million Americans who receive Supplemental ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joslyn Brenton, Ithaca College; Alyssa Tindall, Ursinus College, and Senbagam ...