by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors August 10, 2025 President Donald Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ eliminated funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, On a sweltering afternoon this week, Ana Garcia, 41, and her three-year-old son, Elliott, arrived at the Goodhue Community Center on Staten Island to pick up their weekly haul of fresh, affordable…
Credit: (NJ Spotlight News)File photo One in seven children in New Jersey suffers from food insecurity, a significant increase from before the pandemic. Many of these 270,000 children count on their schools for two meals, five days a week. Now with schools closing for the summer, these families can turn to summer food benefit cards,…
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Saturn will continue to operate as a standalone app. The news was first reported by Engadget. Snap says almost the…
Gov. Andy Beshear has announced that, thanks to approval by the federal government, healthy meals will continue to be provided to 450,000 Kentucky children while school is out this summer. Each eligible student will receive a one-time benefit of $120 to purchase nutritious food throughout the summer. Support comes through the federal Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer…
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Governor Reynolds says changes to SNAP will promote healthy eating and protect future generations from disease. It would remove foods including soda and candy from SNAP, anything that people currently pay sales tax for at the grocery store. The question is, are people on SNAP actually buying the unhealthy foods…
Good morning. If you thought Larry Ellison was going to run Paramount, think again. A month ago, Skydance Media told the FCC that the Oracle founder would have voting control of the media company formerly known as ViacomCBS when Skydance closes its $8 billion deal. It has now filed a revision saying no, it’s actually…
The social media arena is very competitive when it comes to app store downloads. Recent trends show major wins for Meta in regards to Threads and Facebook. Another winner is Snapchat. Here’s a look at 3 major highlights of overarching trends. We discuss each further below. Meta’s family of Apps are on fire: 177m downloads…
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is intended to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among low-income households. In 2019, the program served an average of more than 282,000 West Virginians per month. SNAP is a fully federally funded program, except for some state administrative costs. But in West Virginia, the average benefit is $1.29 per person…