Schools are bracing for the impact on their students as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) teeters on the ...

New Vision held its first annual Barbour-Q on Saturday, a mentorship opportunity for youth to form teams with men in the community to learn how to master the grill.

New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.

Head Start programs nationwide risk closure amid the government shutdown impacting nearly 65,000 children and over 22,000 ...

Brian Walker showed up Friday at The Kansas Food Bank at 5:30 a.m., tall coffee cup in hand and a sense of dread swelling in his chest. By Monday, the federal agency that hands out federal food ...

While the nation waits for the government shutdown to end, North Country residents are about to snap over the loss, or possible reduction of their Nov. 1 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

"I'm wondering how I'm going to be able to afford everything" if federal food aid is halted, one single mom said.

When the federal government shut down at the beginning of October, there was enough funding reserved for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s biggest food aid program, to ...

The impacts of [closing] would be — could be — catastrophic,” said Carl Howell, whose Lowell-area Head Start programs take care of about 550 kids.

BILLINGS — Head Start Billings is planning for food-service disruptions as the federal government shutdown continues. Head ...

Annemarie King is eating only once a day, and her husband, Randall, is picking up extra shifts at the drywall factory where he works. They are among the nearly 42 million Americans preparing for their ...

Americans are being stripped of their grocery budget benefits — financial support provided by the Supplemental Nutrition ...