This is a political decision that withholds food as leverage in a budget fight. When the federal government refuses to use available resources to prevent hunger, that is not austerity; it is ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 ...

Local food assistance leaders are 'sounding the alarm' as nearly 10,000 Johnson County residents could go without SNAP ...

About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first ...

Cross cultural research shows that it is a spontaneous universal human trait, with evidence that giving is more spontaneous than greed (you have to think about being greedy, giving comes naturally).

There’s a word to describe the mess that Kansas and the rest of our country faces, now that the federal government shutdown has stopped food assistance. That word is failure. It’s a failure on the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required ...

Less than two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it ...

Americans head to the polls on Election Day. Plus, the nation remembers the life of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

One in eight Americans relies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Arizona roughly tracks the national average, ...

Right now, you can see the desperation, you can feel the frustration,” said the Reverend John Udo-Okon, who runs a Bronx food pantry that saw hundreds lining up before dawn. Meanwhile, millions of ...