Effective immediately: 5 states ban using SNAP to purchase soda and candy while a dozen more states gear up to place ...

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a funding package to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The shutdown has halted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

For Ashleigh Ligon, a mother of six living in Federal Way, Washington, the defining word for November has been “uncertainty.” Ligon’s household is already marked by the chaos of a large family—her six ...

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