Around 42 million low-income Americans rely on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees the program and says it is working on an ...

President Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back nearly a century in the ...

The Agriculture Department plans to freeze federal funding for 21 states starting next week as it escalates its crackdown on possible fraud in the food stamp program, Agriculture Secretary Brooke ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides nearly 42 million low- and no-income Americans with federal money to buy groceries. As the government shutdown dragged into its second ...

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Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. (Nov. 3) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it will only partially fund the food stamp program through ...

Terence P. Jeffrey is investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation. Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of ...