THE AFRO — The Maryland Department of Human Resources estimates that more than 650,000 Marylanders receive nutrition help each month through the federal-state partnership known as the...
THE AFRO — Key agenda items for the organization is raising the minimum wage, family medical leave insurance (FMLI), maternal justice– which champions issues of infant...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Starting February 16, Fresh Future Farm store customers will be able to pay what they can afford.
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — As a result of this catastrophic and life-altering shutdown, so many people who have relied on the government for their livelihood have...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Louisiana Healthcare Connections has announced that it is sponsoring a SNAP match program for mobile fresh produce markets operated by the local non-profit...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist In progressive policy circles, and during the Democratic presidential debates, people are talking about income inequality. Though this phenomenon...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his speech the night before his murder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. repeated the Biblical parable of the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent Department of Justice report on police and court practices in Ferguson, Mo. put a much needed spotlight...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Republican House budget will shred the social safety net designed to protect the most vulnerable citizens,...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New federal grants will help 10 states test programs to help food stamp recipients find jobs, from using...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty despite the growing economy, according to an...
Jonathan Ellis, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to release studies this spring that will provide more information about the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The president’s budget released this week proposes billions in critical new federal investments for 2016 and beyond to improve...
Mary Clare Jalonick, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuts to the nation’s food stamp program enacted this year are only affecting four states, far from the sweeping overhaul...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist A perennial favorite science project from preschool on up is the “seed experiment.” That’s when a child plants identical seeds...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist While many American families gathered around the Thanksgiving table last week, some of us combined this year’s traditional dinners with...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Are there no prisons? And the workhouses, are they still in operation?” Is that what the government and the people...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Just as the holiday season begins, when the thoughts and actions of some focus on compassion for others, we...
[USA Today] Food stamp benefits will be cut to more than 47 million Americans starting Friday as a temporary boost to the federal program comes to...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators have begun talks on crafting a compromise farm bill, including cuts to the food...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Both the House and Senate have passed bills that would reduce funding of the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance...
