Photo: Grocery retailers across the country are preparing for a potential onslaught of SNAP shoppers beginning next week, and making sure they have enough food stocked and employees on hand to handle the volume. [Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images]
by Helena Bottemiller Evich Politico January 12, 2019
The partial government shutdown, hours away from becoming the longest in U.S. history, means that millions of low-income Americans are about to get their February food stamps a few weeks early — an unprecedented payout of b...
Photo: Jackie Rallis, kitchen manager at Windham High School, shows the menu of the day: street tacos with marinated bean salad and slaw
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by Patty Wight Maine Public Radio January 11, 2019
One school in Maine serves 3,000 meals a day to students who are hungry for nutrition
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Photo: Leftover food — several tons of it — sits piled up before being processed into “bio-slurry” at a facility in New York in August. [Steven Groves/Associated Press]
In this Friday, March 17, 2017, file photo, a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer’s market in Topsham, Maine. A proposal to curtail the nation’s food stamp program would pinch families struggling to pay for groceries and ripple through other areas of the economy, including supermarkets and discounters.
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by Juliet Linderman USA Today December 20, 2018
The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year’s farm bill didn’t: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance....