From deporting agricultural workers to cutting back SNAP and free school meals, the policies Trump or his advisers have espoused could wreak havoc on households’ food budgets.

The House GOP’s farm bill would change how SNAP benefits are evaluated, and Democrats are furious.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was created to get low-income families back on their feet. But does it actually work?

Beneficiaries of SNAP and WIC might end up getting caught in the crossfire of a proposed funding deal.

A sustainable food system could be worth up to $10 trillion a year. Meanwhile, Congress can’t even pass a new version of the farm bill.

Conservatives grumble that the debt ceiling deal was insufficient. Can they force new talks on work requirements?

The GOP wants additional work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries in the debt ceiling deal, despite evidence that shows they are ineffective.

The Republican proposal would fail at addressing the debt but would succeed in making people’s lives worse in more ways than one.

The GOP is again pushing for harsher work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP—even though it would barely dent our national debt.

As the Covid-era SNAP emergency allotment program ends this month, providers are already seeing increased need.

From a draconian new proposal in Iowa to farm bill deliberations in Washington, the ideological battles over food aid will soon kick off—and no one knows who will end up paying the price.

As public health emergencies end, so do emergency allotments for households receiving vital nutrition benefits.

The Utah senator’s plan for a basic income for families is an improvement on what’s out there. It’s also an incredibly narrow vision of what the government can do for the most vulnerable.

Children have written requesting money for their parents, a bed to sleep in, and a better wheelchair to help them get around. There’s nothing feel-good about it.

The pandemic has offered a brief respite from policies that force people to work to “deserve” basic support like food stamps. We can’t go back.

More than half a million SNAP recipients are on the edge of losing access to the crucial food safety net—just as they need it most.

New poverty data from the Census Bureau reveals the extent of the damage that Trump and Paul Ryan could do to America’s neediest communities.