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

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

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

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

The health and human services secretary wants to limit access to items he has called “poison.” But this mission is more ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is seeking federal waivers to update the state's SNAP program to exclude sodas and include some ...

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

The administration is celebrating every example it can find of food companies replacing corn syrup with cane sugar or seed ...

Governor Lee’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how quickly the new rules would take effect if ...

The SNAP program seeks to assist low-income families and individuals to purchase nutritious food and thus promote healthy ...

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

A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has raised alarm bells by projecting that a large number of US citizens will stop receiving food stamps from the SNAP pro ...