Republican lawmakers want to join a nationwide movement barring the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks and candy.Sen. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) co-authored a bill with ...

Food Is Medicine interventions are increasingly gaining attention from policy makers, payers, and health care professionals as a promising approach to addressing diet-related chronic health conditions ...

Numerous Republican states have proposed legislation seeking to ban the purchase of unhealthy food and drinks.

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern rolled out legislation that would protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as food ...

Harmful food dyes in school lunches and unhealthy food items for commercial sale have been banned by Gov. Patrick Morrisey ...

Louisiana plans to ban soda from SNAP benefits as part of a broad nutrition bill that also targets school food, seed oils and ...

A new bill currently in Congress could prevent the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from being cut or ...

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has accused Republicans of setting “in motion the largest cut to Medicaid in ...

U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will join ...

Two Arkansas lawmakers expressed frustration Thursday, April 3, 2025 that their efforts to allow food stamp recipients to ...

The Texas Senate has voted to ban food stamp recipients from purchasing junk food and soda. The vote came this week on Senate Bill 379 and passed overwhelmingly 22-8. The bill would ban food stamp ...