SNAP Program

SNAP Cuts Leave States And Counties Facing Spiraling Hunger Crisis

July 7, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Educate! Arizona, Austerity, Food Insecurity, Hunger, SNAP Program, Trump Administration

One year after President Donald Trump signed legislation that slashed federal health care and food assistance to pay for tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, officials on the front lines of the nation’s affordability crisis say the costs to state and local governments of filling holes left by Congress in the safety net are unsustainable. Demand for food assistance is rising as children and the elderly go hungry and millions struggle to afford the rising prices, leaving state and local governments in a tight fiscal squeeze.

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits

June 21, 2026 Nicole Santa Cruz, Pro Publica. Educate! Austerity, Children, Food Insecurity, SNAP Program, Trump Administration

As a House committee debated President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year, Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, wouldn’t affect vulnerable people. SNAP reforms would “restore integrity” to the program and ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children,” said Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the House Agriculture Committee. Passing the bill would be a “historic accomplishment” that will ensure “those in need can continue to receive the assistance they need,” said Rep. John Rose, a Republican from Tennessee.

Food Insecurity Reaches Near-Pandemic Levels

June 2, 2026 Alexis Sterling, Nation of Change. Educate! Finance and the Economy, Food Insecurity, SNAP Program, United States

While headline economic indicators continue to suggest stability in the U.S. economy, a growing body of evidence points to a different reality for millions of Americans struggling to afford basic necessities. New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found that food insecurity is increasing sharply across the country, reaching levels not seen since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and exposing deep economic divides that aggregate statistics often fail to capture. The analysis, released this week by researchers at the New York Fed, examined responses from the Survey of Consumer Expectations and found what researchers described as “a remarkable increase in food insecurity, particularly among lower-educated and lower-income households and households with young children,” alongside “a contemporaneous increase in pessimism among the same groups, along with a sharp decline in job-finding expectations.”

Federation Of Southern Co-ops Sets Out Shutdown Support Measures

November 8, 2025 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. Organize! Cooperatives, Food and Farming, Government Shutdown, SNAP Program, The South

With the US federal shutdown entering its second month, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund has set out its effort to support people suffering food insecurity. The shutdown, which began on 1 October, has affected food stamp payments issued through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits. This month, the Trump administration said claimants will be given half their normal monthly allotment, taken from emergency funding. The Federation has pointed to the ”urgency” of the situation and its impact on programmes like SNAP, “which millions depend on for food access”, and says it has “built infrastructure to address crises like this”.

SNAP Benefits For African Mothers Are Gone While Ukraine Eats Good

March 16, 2023 Erica Caines, Hood Communist. Educate! Black America, Congress, Food Security, SNAP Program

As the country ushers in commemorations for ‘International Women’s Month’, 42 million households have been hit with a significant reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits impacting the ability of millions of mothers to feed their children. In December 2022, Congress voted to end the pandemic emergency allotments after passing the government funding package the previous year. After nearly three years, the program that temporarily increased federal SNAP benefits for low-income families came to an end on March 1st.

Empty Tables

March 13, 2023 Beverly Gologorsky, Tom Dispatch. Educate! Class Struggle, Food and Agriculture, Food Insecurity, health, SNAP Program

My long-dead father used to say, “Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake.” Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older I realized both what they meant, symbolically speaking, and the grim reality they disguised so charmingly. That saying of his arose from a basic reality of our lives then — the eternal scarcity of food in our household, just as in so many other homes in New York City’s South Bronx where I grew up. This was during the 1940s and 1950s, but hunger still haunts millions of American households more than three-quarters of a century later.

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