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By Alan Jaffe Republican and Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House ...
Big changes are being proposed to a food assistance program as part of President Donald Trump's tax-cut legislation ...
States could be made to pay for a portion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits under the Republican budget ...
The highest-earning U.S. households would see the biggest gains under the GOP budget package thanks to tax cuts, CBO analysis finds.
Boca Helping Hands, which serves 35,000 people a year with food, job training and financial assistance, was already feeling ...
LOUIS – Last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its analysis of President ... Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cuts in history. “By putting up so much red ...
House Republicans are pushing to slash at least $1 trillion from two of the nation’s bedrock safety net programs, Medicaid ...
Advocates say cuts to Medicaid and SNAP as part of Congress' passed budget bill could mean thousands of Iowans lose benefits.
More than 1.4 million Michiganders receive food assistance through SNAP, and more than half of those are families with kids.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The GOP mega-bill could have a big impact on the work ... In all, the same early analysis projects more than $200 billion in cuts to SNAP over 10 years. Lee said the impacts ...
Health care officials, social safety net providers and other advocates in Iowa are bracing for impact after Congress ... than 71 million Americans. The cuts to SNAP, also known as food stamps ...