We work for you — and we’re matching your donation 1:1! Our team is keeping you in touch with everything that’s happening in our local food culture. Will you chip in today? A recent Cooking Matters class at the nonprofit Rubicon Richmond began with a bit of show-and-tell. The 10 or so people in the…
President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill into law Wednesday night, officially ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.The legislation will fund the government through Jan. 30 and provide money for some agencies for the rest of the fiscal year.For federal workers waiting on paychecks and local food banks helping struggling families, the bill…
KERRVILLE, Texas – On Monday morning, hours before Light on the Hill began distributing food to families, a line of cars that stretched a mile long started lining up as early as midnight. “I got here at 4:20 (a.m.),” said Lynne R., one of the people in line. “We get everything. You get breads, meat,…
It’s up to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress to decide when full payments will resume under the SNAP food aid program that helps 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries as the financial pressures mount on families in some states. The Supreme Court is expected to rule Tuesday on a request from President Donald Trump’s…
The US Department of Agriculture ordered states to stop issuing full food stamp benefits for November and to “immediately undo” any issuance of the full allotments, after a Supreme Court justice on Friday paused a lower court order requiring the agency to pay Americans their full assistance. In the Saturday directive, obtained by CNN, the…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sarah Lungwitz has fretted over feeding not just her two teenage daughters with SNAP payments disrupted, but her family’s cat and two dogs. Help has arrived for now, she says, after an Illinois nonprofit arranged for volunteers to give her a grocery gift card last week to buy food for herself…
Established in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, is the United States’ largest anti-hunger program, helping an average of 41.7 million—or 1 in 8—Americans per month. “It was invented as a way to help families afford meals in the face of rising food…
Two federal judges ruled that the Trump administration must use emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat during the shutdown. President Donald Trump visited Asia, striking a trade deal with China. Speculation about a Trump third term heated up again, despite its near impossibility. And judges made consequential rulings regarding federal workers and voter registration.Here are…
Congressman Seth Moulton visited a free grocery store in Salisbury, Massachusetts, Wednesday and called on the Trump Administration to fund a critical food assistance program.”We’re here because Donald Trump has a plan to starve the American people this weekend,” Moulton said.Starting Saturday, the Trump Administration says it won’t use contingency funds to pay for SNAP…
This ballot initiative asks voters to increase taxes on wealthier Coloradans to raise an additional $95 million to fully fund the Healthy School Meals for All program, which provides free breakfast and lunch to all public K-12 students in Colorado regardless of income. A group of Colorado parents, students, teachers, and anti-hunger advocates pushed forward…