Hunger

Enrollment in the nutrition assistance program dropped following last year’s sweeping GOP tax bill. Fewer children and schools now qualify for free school meals.

Food inflation, gas prices and cuts to federal benefits have created a “perfect storm” for food pantries, which have become vital parts of the family budget for millions of Americans.

Changes to SNAP from Republicans’ megalaw are rolling out in a year when affordability woes top voters’ priority lists and grocery prices strain their wallets.

The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.

A new Hamilton Project analysis examines the harms that will result from the One Big Beautiful Bill ending the guarantee of full federal funding for SNAP benefits.

The Trump administration has reduced a critical lifeline for many struggling parents and alarming their children, who are asking for food their parents can’t afford.

Students across the country could lose access to free school meals, forcing the typical family with two children to spend $1,900 to $2,200 more per year for school meals.

Lael Brainard and Rohit Chopra argue in a New York Times op-ed that even relatively well-off families are struggling with high prices, despite the tax cuts and wage gains that the Trump administration touts.

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.