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So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
A dozen states are banning people from buying sodas and some sugary snacks using federal food assistance. The effort is part ...
Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...
Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...
The health and human services secretary wants to limit access to items he has called “poison.” But this mission is more ...
In other words, they’ve found that junk food consumption is not connected to one’s body mass index when looking at 95% of the population. The numbers are there, and they’re telling.
Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.
The Trump administration approved requests from another six states to prevent consumers from using food assistance benefits ...