A sweeping Farm Bill that includes $300 billion in cuts to food assistance programs has cleared the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture.

States will likely serve fewer people in need of food assistance, experts say, as Congress says it’s rooting out waste to meet spending-reduction goals for tax cuts.

GOP lawmakers in Washington want someone else to make the tough choice of slashing nutrition benefits—and to take the blame ...

Proposed federal cuts to SNAP could leave Missouri scrambling for funding as food insecurity rises, with nearly one in six in ...

All that could come to an end in the GOP’s drive to pay for the tax cuts and selected ... Conference of State Legislatures estimates that 20 percent or more of SNAP costs will be shifted to ...

Proposed changes include SNAP cuts, increased price loss coverage for ... they have been adjusted in response to ongoing discussions and the failure to pass a new bill ahead of the presidential ...

In Connecticut, according to the report, “Medicaid and SNAP cuts are predicted to bring on $1.16 billion in GDP loss for ...

Infant twins suffered from malnutrition in Nigeria. One died shortly after the Trump administration sharply cut funding for ...

House Republicans are pushing to slash at least $1 trillion from two of the nation’s bedrock safety net programs, Medicaid ...

Hundreds of thousands of Bay State children and seniors could go hungry if congressional Republicans carry through with their plan to cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or ...

Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) is a diverse campaign of more than 420 national, state and local endorsing organizations united in support of a fair tax system that works for all Americans. It has ...

On May 13, the House Agriculture Committee voted in favor of a bill that would cut up to $300 billion ... assistance through SNAP, which is about 20% of the state's population and around 430,000 ...