25 states sue Trump administration over food stamp freeze during shutdown

Officials from half the states and the District of Columbia are asking a federal judge to order the Department of Agriculture ...

Fact Check: Has Donald Trump Lifted Over 600,000 People Off Food Stamps?

According to the latest data available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, between January ...

Who will be impacted by food stamps running out? SNAP recipients by the numbers.

Millions of Americans rely on federal assistance for access to nutritious food. Here's who's impacted as funds dry up in the ...
PolitiFact

Who gets food stamps? Viral chart misleads about SNAP recipients' race, ethnicity

The same report found that 89.4% of SNAP recipients were U.S born citizens, meaning less than 11% of SNAP participants were foreign-born. Of the latter figure, 6.2% were naturalized citizens, 1.1% ...

Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts

The states petitioned a federal court days after the Agriculture Dept. said it would not take emergency steps to provide aid ...
Boise State Public Radio

Tens of thousands in Idaho face uncertainty as food stamps funding run dry

As the shutdown continues, more than 130 000 Idahoans will see their Food stamps run out on November 1st. Uncertainty remains ...

Food need expected to grow if SNAP money ends for 63,000 Lansing area residents

Even before SNAP benefits paused, pantries within the Greater Lansing Food Banks network were seeing consistent increases in ...

The Republican war on food stamps has a long, ugly history

The GOP's refusal to fund food stamps during the shutdown shows how little the party cares about the economically vulnerable.