If enacted, these proposals and others in the budget would sharply increase the number of people who lack health coverage, while increasing poverty, widening income and racial disparities, and driving up the number of households that struggle to afford the basics. Read more
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Child Nutrition Programs (school, summer, and child care meals) are the only major entitlement programs whose beneficiaries risk two types of failures in the annual appropriations process: a government shutdown, especially at the beginning of the fiscal year, and annual funding that proves inadequate to cover the programs’ needs for the entire fiscal year. Read more
Under the continuing resolution (CR) that provided the funding to reopen the government for three weeks, SNAP (food stamps) now is fully funded at least ... Read more
Millions of low-income households could have their basic food assistance cut back substantially in March and then virtually eliminated in April. Read more
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has historically been, after Unemployment Insurance, the most responsive federal program during economic downturns, expanding to meet need and ... Read more
The proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would end or cut benefits for a substantial number of low-income people. Read more
This approach reaffirms SNAP’s importance for struggling households that can’t afford a basic diet without its help. It stands in stark contrast to the House farm bill’s SNAP provisions, which would end or cut benefits for more than 2 million individuals in more than 1 million households. Read more
The House Agriculture Committee farm bill would impose new mandates on states, limit state flexibility, and make the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) more complicated to administer. Read more
The Congressional Budget’s Office (CBO) estimate of the House Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill reiterates that its SNAP benefit cuts would total more than $17 billion over ten years. Read more
