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So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
The new advisory focuses on confusion over what qualifies as ultraprocessed food and offers up policy-change strategies.
Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...
Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.
Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...
The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...
Starting in 2026, West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas will join a growing list of states — like ...
Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...
The health and human services secretary wants to limit access to items he has called “poison.” But this mission is more ...
Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
The Trump administration approved requests from another six states to prevent consumers from using food assistance benefits ...