Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...

Twelve states, including Texas and Florida, will restrict SNAP purchases of junk food like soda, candy, and desserts starting ...

Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...

The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...

Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.

There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.

A child cannot flourish on Twinkies, candy and soda alone. Sadly, the state and negligent parents allow too many to try it.

Sen. Marco Rubio’s bill to prohibit the purchase of junk food with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (“No More Subsidies for Junk Food,” op-ed, May 8) is an excellent idea ...

Rep. Josh Breechan, an Oklahoma Republican, sponsored the Healthy SNAP Act. “If someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that’s up to them,” he said.