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This is the Updated List of Foods You CANNOT Buy with SNAP

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a critical resource for low-income families and individuals across the United States. It provides financial assistance to purchase nutritious ...
The Atlantic

The New Food-Stamp Rules Will Make Your Head Spin

The Save gas station on the west side of Gary, Indiana, wants customers to know that they can pay for their groceries with food stamps. When I pulled into the parking lot last week, the first thing I ...
Nature

Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains

Current diets are unsustainable and poor diets remain one of the main contributors to the global burden of disease, yet 3.1 billion people in the world cannot afford a healthy diet 1. The ...
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Greater Cincinnati food banks are already strained as thousands face SNAP loss

This story was updated to reflect an Oct. 30 Hamilton County comissioners vote to allocate funds to Freestore Foodbank. In November, 96,609 people in Hamilton County could lose the money they count on ...
CNN

Here’s why the shutdown has put food stamp benefits at risk

In an unprecedented situation, millions of Americans could lose access to a crucial food assistance program in the coming weeks amid the federal government shutdown. The US Department of Agriculture ...
NPR

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids

A mother in Nigeria pretends to cook food in a pot of water to calm her hungry children. In Houston, another mom can't get to the food bank because the family's car was flooded by Hurricane Beryl in ...