If you depend on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for assistance, you might wonder if freelance work, gig jobs or self-employment could cost you.

In 2025, SNAP spending was over $100 billion, while SNAP-Ed operated on a $536 million budget, educating over 1.2 million ...

SNAP is rolling out major 2026 changes, including junk food purchase bans in 18 states, expanded work requirements and updated benefit limits.

Diane Cress, Wayne State University If the government had found a way to save US$10 for every dollar it spent helping low-income people get healthier, wouldn’t it make sense for it to keep doing that?

See which bills lived and died after the Iowa Legislature's first "funnel" deadline of 2026.

Micheline Maynard has focused on the business world for much of her career. Also known as Micki, she has been a writer and editor at news organizations including The New York Times and NPR, and is the ...

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Farm bill provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act strengthened parts of the farm safety net, but reconciliation ...

DePaul completes a stunning repeat upset as N.J. Benson's late layup seals a second straight 72-71 win over Creighton in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown is vastly different from the record closure in the fall. That is mostly ...

Southeast Missouri Food Bank’s 2025 report shows 14M pounds of food, 12.3M meals across 16 counties, and a planned 30% ...