Community helps families in need after SNAP benefits run dry

Halt in SNAP benefits will hurt millions of rural families

By Sarah Melotte and Tim Marema The Daily Yonder The pause in food stamp benefits that will hit Saturday, November 1 will disproportionately hurt rural families.  Other groups that will be more affected by the Trump administration’s freeze on benefits are households with children and residents of the core counties of the nation’s larger urban areas. These findings are based on a Daily Yonder analysis of data from the American Community Survey co…

Community helps families in need after SNAP benefits run dry

It's day one of recipients not receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

SNAP benefits run dry as government shutdown continues, here’s how states are stepping in

(NEW YORK) — Beginning Saturday,  some 42 million low-income Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown continues. The Department of Agriculture has said that funding for this month’s benefits, which it says […]