food stamps

A federal judge on Sunday struck down a Trump administration rule that would have reduced food stamp benefits to nearly 700,000 people.

Amid one of the worst downturns in U.S. history, the number of Americans who are struggling to pay for food has soared. Around 20% of adults living with children said they couldn’t afford to adequately feed their families over the last seven days, and nearly 26 million adults said people in their households are not eating enough because of a...

Massachusetts state leaders are pursuing a way to give the rapidly growing number of people relying on federal food benefits a way to buy groceries from a safe distance.

EBT cards can’t be used to buy food online, something Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern is trying to change as coronavirus keeps people indoors.

From Hawaii to Pennsylvania, states are scrambling to curb the impact of a new Trump administration rule that could cause nearly 700,000 people to lose food stamp benefits

Advocates say new guidelines that disqualify more people from green cards if they use government benefits is prompting droves of immigrants to drop government social services

New York Attorney General Letitia James and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine are co-leading a lawsuit filed Thursday to stop the Trump Administration from eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans, James’ office said.   The lawsuit, which was joined by 13 attorney generals — including those for New Jersey and Connecticut — as well as New York…

Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia are scrambling to address a Trump administration policy change that will keep nearly 700,000 of their poorest residents from accessing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced last month that in an effort “to restore the dignity of work,” the Trump administration would limit states...

The Trump administration is tightening work requirements for the federal food stamp program in a move that will slash benefits for hundreds of thousands of people....

The final rule, announced Wednesday, will limit the ability of states to exempt work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment in order to receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed...

President Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amid the ongoing government shutdown and more troubling revelations about the 2016 election. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.

Nearly a million children could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would reduce the number of people who get food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an analysis that says as many as 982,000 children could be affected by the change. About half would have to pay a reduced price...

The scene is playing out in courtrooms from coast to coast — federal judges being asked to block a new Trump administration policy scheduled to take effect next week that would deny legal permanent residency to many immigrants over the use of public benefits. Almost a dozen lawsuits have been filed from New York to California with plaintiffs including states,...

As the third week of desperate searching for missing five-year-old Dulce María Alavez begins, her mother spoke about the search, suspicion and her family’s pain.

San Francisco and Santa Clara counties filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new rules to deny green cards to migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, came after the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement Monday of its expanded “public charge” rules to restrict legal immigration. In a...

The Trump administration determined that more than 500,000 children would no longer be automatically eligible for free school meals under a proposed overhaul to the food stamp program, but left that figure out of its formal proposal, NBC News reported, citing House Democrats. The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to crack down on eligibility for food stamps, estimating that 3.1...

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed tightening automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program, a change that could affect about 3.1 million people. The Agriculture Department said the rule would close “a loophole” that enables people receiving only minimal benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to be eligible automatically for food stamps. “For too long, this...

The leader of the agency that operates the Amtrak Downeaster service from Maine to Boston provided a letter to customers on Tuesday, acknowledging the train is not providing the desired experience for its passengers. However, the letter also admitted the over-crowding situation does not appear to have a quick fix.

Commuting into downtown Boston can be physically and emotionally challenging under normal circumstances. But these are anything but normal times for Maggie Kent and her husband, Gordon. Every day, the Bradford, Massachusetts couple hops on the Amtrak Downeaster at the station in Haverhill and takes the nearly one-hour trip into Boston.

The city of Boston is making significant changes to its parking app after the NBC10 Boston Investigators highlighted drivers getting over-meter limit parking tickets after they insist they moved their cars on time. Mayor Marty Walsh promised last week the city would fix the problem, and the Transportation Department confirmed the fix is on the way.

Yma Arrington has lived on Woodbine Street in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood for almost 30 years. She’s seen snow before and said she and her neighbors shovel their walks, both in front of their properties and for their neighbors when needed. “That’s how we do,” Arrington said. She said one neighbor across the street from her, though, doesn’t. The utility Eversource...