Food stamps are often framed as a ticket to cheap chips and soda, but the rules at the register are far more specific than ...

SNAP, or food stamps, won't be available to some 42 million Americans come Nov. 1. But what can you buy with SNAP? Only 'healthy' food? See here.

Starting in 2026, twelve states will prohibit using SNAP benefits to purchase sodas and other sugary items. Find out if your ...

Under the longstanding Restaurant Meals Program, eligible participants use their EBT cards to pay for prepared meals.

Taxpayers subsidize ultra-processed calories through SNAP, the resulting disease through Medicare and Medicaid, and then ...

Nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle says that when she wrote her first book, Food Politics, in 2002, people often asked her what food had to do with politics. "Nobody asks me that anymore," Nestle ...

As the controversy over funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown dragged on in recent days, the top official in charge of the program pivoted to a ...

The SNAP challenge involves living on $6 a day, which is roughly the average food benefit that SNAP recipients get. Most recipients aren't able to live on that little, and many turn to food pantries ...