So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.

Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...

The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...

A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has raised alarm bells by projecting that a large number of US citizens will stop receiving food stamps from the SNAP pro ...

Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...

Governor Lee’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how quickly the new rules would take effect if ...

Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch unserious.

There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked the federal government to carve out a ban on certain food bought with SNAP benefits.

Texas takes "junk food" off the SNAP eligibility list as part of the Trump administration's push to "Make America Healthy ...

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...