Susan Collins has expressed her dismay on local news outlets about proposed cuts in Medicaid funding as part of the federal ...

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 172,200 Maine residents, or 12% of the state’s population, were ...

Try living on the average single person's weekly food stamp benefit ... on their resources. I urge Maine’s congressional delegation to please not reduce the SNAP benefit that many disadvantaged ...

Food insecurity advocates say kids, the elderly and people with disabilities will go hungry if the budget deal goes through.

Try living on the average single person's weekly food stamp benefit. You'll understand there is no room left to cut.

According to the latest Map the Meal Gap study from Feeding America, 1 in 8 Mainers has experienced food insecurity.

“This would be the largest SNAP cuts in history by far, which would result in food being taken away from the hungry,” wrote Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center ...

Local food banks are closely keeping an eye on the proposed federal spending bill. That's because it includes about $300 billion dollars in cuts to SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Seven Maine farms and ... culturally familiar food for limited resource neighbors. The financing included $75,000 in local food purchasing agreement funds, $191,000 in SNAP and women, infants ...