Tag: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that...
SNAP work requirements don’t actually get more people working – but...
Kelsey Pukelis, Harvard Kennedy School
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would cut spending, in part...
Extra SNAP benefits are ending as US lawmakers resume battle over...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
Millions of Americans will find it harder to put enough food on the table...
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their water bills – here’s...
Joseph Cook, Washington State University
Running water and indoor plumbing are so central to modern life that most Americans...
SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusts Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits to reflect changes...
How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University; Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley, and Melissa S. Kearney, University of Maryland
As...
Child poverty in the U.S. could be slashed by monthly payments...
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that...
18 million US children are at risk of hunger: How is...
Heather Eicher-Miller, Purdue University; David Himmelgreen, University of South Florida; Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton, and Kecia Johnson, Mississippi State University
Editor’s note: The...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
