The state’s food assistance programs took center stage at a meeting at the Capitol on Thursday morning.

The order is one of the latest developments in the Massachusetts’ legal wranglings with the Trump administration over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

The government shutdown drew widespread attention to how many Americans struggle to get enough food. For 43 days, the more than 42 million Americans who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

For 43 days in 2025, 42 million lower-income families, including children and elderly, wondered where their next meals would come from. The nation’s largest anti-hunger program, Supplemental Nutrition ...

When Kasey McBlais, a single mother of two, renewed her federal food assistance benefits for the year, she found the monthly amount inexplicably reduced from $600 to $359. She was already on a tight ...

Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier said the program has been serving 6,700 individuals every week in Pittsfield, accounting for 15% of her city's total population.

Kansans receiving food assistance can’t buy soda or candy with those dollars beginning in 2027, Gov. Laura Kelly said ...

The snowcapped mountains surrounding northwest Montana's Flathead Reservation are a sign winter is coming. Mary Lefthand pulls her truck up to a warehouse in the valley below. This story was produced ...

Customers shop at a grocery store. Distributing food stamps soon could get even harder for Missouri’s food aid system, which a federal judge has already called “broken and inaccessible.” States depend ...