Lee will seek new funding for the state’s smaller-scale summer feeding programs when he proposes the state budget next month.

Backed by the Trump administration, more than a dozen states are moving to ban candy and snack foods from SNAP food assistance programs in 2026.

Editor’s note: This article was fist published by The Conversation, a content partner of The Associated Press. See it online at theconversation.com. The 2025 government shutdown drew widespread ...

WASHINGTON(AP) — A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing ...

Among many other things, the recent federal government shutdown placed a spotlight on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Bill Lee will announce programs for summer food assistance in his fiscal year 2027 budget, TCS has learned. The governor is ...

Customers shop at a grocery store. Distributing food stamps soon could get even harder for Missouri’s food aid system, which a federal judge has already called “broken and inaccessible.” States depend ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The 2025 government shutdown drew widespread attention to how many Americans struggle to get enough food. For 43 days, the more than 42 million Americans who receive Supplemental ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joslyn Brenton, Ithaca College; Alyssa Tindall, Ursinus College, and Senbagam ...