Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cited fraud, but experts say the rate is about 1.6%. Critics say the move would create ...

A range of factors can influence the number of people receiving food stamp benefits in the short-term outside of improvements in the economy.

On average, 42.4 million people in 22.7 million households received monthly SNAP benefits through the first eight months of the 2025 fiscal year.

For the poorest Americans, the end of the longest shutdown in history has left doubt and anxiety around the benefits known as ...

SNAP, often called food stamps, helps about 42 million Americans, 2 million of them in Pennsylvania, to buy groceries.

A trip through The Nation’s archives offers essential insights into why Republicans have long tried to weaken SNAP—and why they’re trying to kill it now.

Millions of Americans greeted the end of the 43-day government shutdown with relief as food stamp benefits resumed. But many ...

But the administration indicated it might not be necessary, as Congress moved toward a deal to fund the government.

Even though the shutdown is over, the GOP’s signature tax and spending law is poised to kick people off the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.

Roughly 42 million Americans rely on food stamps that arrive every month on their electronic benefit transfer cards. On Nov. 1, that aid is set to abruptly stop amid the ongoing U.S. government ...

The California Democrat said: "Who goes all the way through the court system to cut food from people who need it right now?" ...

As grocery prices continue to rise and millions of Californians saw their food benefits disrupted this month, nearly one in ...