food assistance

Pandemic Relief Expiring Means Northwest Children Will Miss Healthy School Meals

People load their vehicles with boxes of food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank earlier this month in Los Angeles. Food banks across the United States are seeing numbers and people they have never seen before amid unprecedented unemployment from the COVID-19 outbreak.

Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger

The charitable organizations called food banks are getting a lot of attention and donations right now. But they aren't nearly as important or effective as SNAP, formerly known as food stamps.

Three million people would lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits under a proposed rule change by the Trump administration. CREDIT: Julio Cortez/AP

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Comment Period Ends For Proposal That Would Cut Federal Food Assistance Benefits For Millions

Friday is the last day for the public to comment on a proposed rule change by the Trump administration that would eliminate Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, or food stamps, for more than 3 million people.