The outcome? Empty grocery store shelves, increased prices and cashiers forced to be the food police." Recipients already can't use SNAP dollars to buy alcohol, tobacco, hot foods and personal ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

The food truck is known for Maine- and Connecticut-style lobster rolls, plus chowder, tacos and more. Cousins Maine Lobster will open its first Wisconsin-based food truck in Milwaukee in June.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services is advising residents of western and central Pennsylvania who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or “food stamps”) that they ...

The specific details of the cuts are not public yet, but some Republican leaders are calling for states to pay a portion of SNAP food benefits for the first time. Maine’s members of Congress ...

“The one place that I would say that we need to really change policy is the SNAP program and food stamps, and in school lunches,” Kennedy shared on Fox News in February. “There, the federal ...