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One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else.
Pennsylvania’s legislature has not passed a budget for more than 120 days, freezing critical state funds on top of the federal government shutdown.
An injection of $450 million for WIC comes as the Trump administration announced it would only fund partial benefits for another food aid program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP,
Some are calling on Gov. Maura Healey and state lawmakers to tap into the state's $8 billion rainy-day fund to make up the difference due to partial funding of SNAP in November. Raise Up Massachusetts, a labor-funded advocacy group that organized to pass the state's millionaires tax in 2022, wants Healey to take that step.
Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray following Israel's devastating two-year offensive.
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.
Millions of low-income families may face delays in receiving home heating aid due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
In one Truth Social post announcing aid for Alaska, he noted he "won BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024" within the state.