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So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...
Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...
There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.
A new bill proposes changing the types of foods that are covered under Pennsylvania’s SNAP program. A Senate bill proposed by ...
The Trump administration on Monday approved six additional states seeking to ban food stamp recipients from purchasing processed food. Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas and ...
Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...
Beginning Jan. 1, SNAP recipients in Florida will no longer be able to use the benefit on soda, energy drinks, candy or ...
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 ...
Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.