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Millions of Americans rely on public assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid to meet basic needs for food and health care. Yet a new study from the Brown School at Washington ...
Nov 12, 2025
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Payments through SNAP, the federal food assistance program, have been delayed during the government shutdown, but program cuts in this summer's budget bill already put vulnerable families at long-term risk of going hungry.
Nov 11, 2025
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The 15% expansion of food stamp payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP for short, during the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced the odds of needy children going hungry, especially in Hispanic-American ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Investigators at Mass General Brigham have found that cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States have declined overall over the last decade, but disparities have persisted and in some cases widened. Poverty, which ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Overall, 13.5% of U.S. children living in households receiving supplemental nutrition benefit programs have food insecurity (FI), according to a research brief published online Nov. 7 in Pediatrics.
Nov 7, 2025
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As Medicaid funding cuts enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are expected to reduce health coverage among adults, researchers and clinicians from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Ariadne Labs argue ...
Nov 3, 2025
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Starting Nov. 1, funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—the nation's 60-year-old food assistance program—could be withheld for the first time ever, leaving millions of low-income Americans facing ...
Oct 28, 2025
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This summer, the state of Louisiana texted just over 13,000 people enrolled in its Medicaid program with a link to a website where they could confirm their incomes.
Oct 27, 2025
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Online grocery shopping rocketed in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social distancing recommendations made getting groceries delivered an attractive alternative to going to the store.
Oct 21, 2025
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Millions of Medicaid enrollees may have a way out of the new federal work requirement—if they live in a county with high unemployment.
Oct 7, 2025
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