White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to a question about the growing list of countries that have issued new ...

The Trump administration wants to stop poor people from using federal food benefits for candy or soda. In an initiative ...

ARKANSAS-Arkansas may ban food stamp users from buying sodas and candy. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked the USDA for a ...

Some states want to block SNAP recipients from using benefits to buy sugary foods as part of the "make America healthy again" ...

Four states have said they will try to eliminate sugary products from food stamps programs, which may affect recipients of ...

Officials in Arkansas, Indiana and Idaho submitted waiver requests to the U.S. Department of Agriculture which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the official name of ...

Taking part in Capitol Hill’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, SNAP will exclude all sodas, “unhealthy drinks,” and candy ...

Arkansas and Indiana have both formally requested permission from the USDA to limit the purchase of soda and candy using benefits.

An Alabama lawmaker has filed a bill, HB579, that would ban the purchase of soda using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

The Trump administration and the U.S. House of Representatives want to reduce the benefit. On Tuesday, Arkansas and Indiana ...

A 2014 study by Stanford Medicine found that banning sugar-sweetened beverages alone from SNAP would result in about 281,000 fewer adults ...