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After two years of back-to-back special sessions, Colorado lawmakers may be headed for another one, this time to deal with ...
With food stamps no longer protected by the decades-old farm bill coalition, millions are likely to go hungry while Big Ag is ...
Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had created a paradox of plenty in the nation’s agricultural system: environmentally destructive overproduction of a few major ...
The spending cuts package, requested by the White House, heads back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign ...
SNAP helps families across the country, including more than 2 million Pennsylvanians, afford the food they need.
Here’s what to watch as Congress hashes out federal housing funds for next year.  On Thursday, the House Committee on ...
Cuts to SNAP and Medicaid benefits could hurt low-income workers, while tax breaks in the same bill will disproportionately benefit wealth business owners, adding to the gap between rich and poor.
Among the big education-related provisions in the new law is the nation's first federal school voucher program.
Two Republican senators voted no in the early hours of July 17. The legislation returns to the House for approval ahead of a Friday deadline.
The Senate has passed Donald Trump’s request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, ...
States, already facing cuts to services by Trump administration, now trying to figure out how to fit Medicaid and SNAP cuts into their budgets.