In light of a federal court decision last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed retailers in West Virginia ...

Right-wing NewsMax anchor Rob Schmitt claimed Friday that SNAP recipients use the benefits not to procure much-needed food, but to “get their weaves” done. Schmitt made the eyebrow-raising comment ...

For the nearly 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP for food assistance, their grocery lists may soon look very different. As federal funding tightens and states gain more autonomy, new restrictions ...

Arkansas is moving forward with its plan to ban government food aid from being used to buy candy and soda beginning on ...

It's Day 28, and we're finally getting down to the part of the government shutdown where we'll find out if Democrats or Republicans will flinch in this twisted game of political chicken that threatens ...

Erika D. Smith is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. She is a former Los Angeles Times columnist and Sacramento Bee editorial board member. During this fall’s government shutdown, ...