Republican-backed legislation restricting eligibility for federal food assistance programs is headed to the governor’s desk ...

The Food and Nutrition Service currently has a workforce of about 1,200 employees, according to the latest data from OPM. It’s not immediately clear how many FNS employees will be asked to relocate. A ...

A general view of a "We Accept EBT Food Stamp Benefits" sign as seen at a store in Hawthorne, NJ on March 2, 2024. Christopher Sadowski 1996 was the “Year of Welfare Reform,” including for migrants.

Programs like SNAP and WIC "simply will not function" if employees exit en masse after declining mandatory relocations across ...

Workshop participants identified numerous research issues, methodologies, and data needs that the ideal food assistance program evaluation effort should consider. Designing such an effort, however, ...

Investigators have found a large underworld of fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs. In one scandal, 57 people were convicted of stealing benefits from a children’s food program. In another scandal, ...

Without change, Massachusetts’ taxpayers will continue to be forced to finance programs that promote dependency over ...