Tag: safety net
How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity
Joslyn Brenton, Ithaca College; Alyssa Tindall, Ursinus College, and Senbagam Virudachalam, University of Pennsylvania
The 2025 government shutdown drew...
Trump’s proposed cuts to work study threaten to upend a widely...
Samantha Hicks, Coastal Carolina University and Amanda Craddock, Coastal Carolina University
Work study works, doesn’t it?
SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids...
Jenalee Doom, University of Denver
About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental...
National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter...
Matthew W. Kreuter, Washington University in St. Louis and Rachel Garg, Washington University in St. Louis
Between January and...
Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is...
Conor Harrison, University of South Carolina; Elena Louder, University of South Carolina; Nikki Luke, University of Tennessee, and Shelley Welton, University of...
‘Big’ legislative package shifts more of SNAP’s costs to states, saving...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025,...
Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood...
Rachel Rebouché, Temple University
Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network...
Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends...
Conor Harrison, University of South Carolina; Elena Louder, University of South Carolina; Nikki Luke, University of Tennessee, and Shelley Welton, University of...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
