WASHINGTON (AP) — On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, ...

Food stamps have been an integral part of many impoverished Americans' lives for decades, and they got their first proper ...

Americans broadly support increasing or maintaining funding for safety net programs, including Social Security and Medicare, ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” offers tax cuts to the wealthiest at the expense of low-income children’s health and education.

Second Harvest and Helping Hands food banks know that if SNAP benefits are cut due to President Trump's big, beautiful bill, more people will have to rely on them.

Food stamps face ‘biggest cut in the program's history' under GOP tax bill SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, currently provides food assistance to more than 40 million individuals including ...

A new poll reveals many Americans think Medicaid and food stamps are underfunded as Republicans consider President Donald Trump’s spending bill that could cut funding for these government programs.

Like the House version, the Senate would expand the food stamp program’s existing work requirements to able-bodied adults ages 55 through 64 and would curtail states’ ability to receive work ...