Great Reads for Good Food

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a program that helps low-income families have access to healthy food. There are many ways in which someone can qualify to get help from the SNAP pr...

Food is one of the biggest items in any working weekly budget. Many people will spend upwards of several hundred dollars each week just feeding themselves and their families. Because food costs can be so high, people look for ways to decrease the amo...

For millions of American children, reliable access to nutritious food is not a given. Hunger impacts children's health, development, and education. To support children facing food insecurity, federal progr...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps) are government-issued benefits that help low-income families and individuals afford meals. There are different types of SNAP benefits, each with t...

Illinois has faced an alarming increase in incidents involving the theft of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, with losses totaling more than $4.5 million from Oct...

The Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP for short, is a special program run by the government that helps people who don't have enough money to buy food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also known as ...

Donald Trump's new trade policies, which involve adding taxes (tariffs) on goods coming from other countries, could make food more expensive for many Americans.  This is especially c...

In Oklahoma City, families who had their food stamps stolen have some good news. The government will keep paying them back for their losses until December 20th. More than 2,600 families in Oklahoma had their...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) limits its beneficiaries to buying food items to be prepared or eaten at home. It doesn’t cover the purchase of hot food at the point of sale, even when bought f...