Erika D. Smith is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. She is a former Los Angeles Times columnist and Sacramento Bee editorial board member. During this fall’s government shutdown, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shopper who receives SNAP benefits slides an EBT card at a checkout counter in a Washington, D.C., grocery store in December ...

About 380,000 Arizona families are reportedly no longer receiving SNAP benefits. The Federal Reserve is reportedly challenging two subpoenas at the heart of US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s criminal ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — In a neighborhood slated for redevelopment, 10 On Your Side met with residents who say the government shutdown made their hardships even harder. Aishea Johnson said she received ...

Sarah Lungwitz has fretted over feeding not just her two teenage daughters with SNAP payments disrupted, but her family’s cat and two dogs. Help has arrived for now, she says, after an Illinois ...

More than 1.4 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program across five states will be banned from using federal food assistance for candy and soda purchases, starting Thursday.

WPTV's Joel Lopez has been looking into the impact and found that United Way of Palm beach County has been working on a 10-year Hunger Relief Initiative where they track various needs, while finding ...

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. taxpayers are footing nearly $250 million a year in SNAP benefits spent on fast-food meals across just nine states, most of which are blue states, according to Republican Iowa Sen.

During this fall’s government shutdown, when food banks faced lines circling the block, President Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that he’d become the face of his administration’s refusal to ...

Nonprofits say it is common for owners to supplement their pet’s diet with human food purchased using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance benefits. Angela Chapman, director of New Leash On Life animal ...