When Blair Isbell's food aid benefits arrive each month, the community college student and mother of two starts planning how ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday that states will be granted waivers to ban soda from ...

Kennedy in 1961, eligible Food Stamps program participants ... Legislation signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson made the program permanent. Its original version introduced in the House ...

The SNAP program has expanded from 17 million beneficiaries under former President Bill Clinton to ... Research shows food stamps are often used to buy junk food. A 2016 study by the Department ...

“And yet, that’s the number one thing our food stamp program is buying ... During Trump’s first term as president, his administration in 2018 rejected an effort by Maine’s Republican ...

To meet this goal, lawmakers could end up targeting major safety-net programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The program, also known as food stamps, helps low-income ...

and the program has become a political flash point since GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said in January that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president ...

Lawmakers in southeastern Pennsylvania clash over what $2 trillion in spending cuts could mean for low-income households ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post amid sweeping ...