SNAP

The poor don't rate a mention in our public consciousness or political campaigns because we are inconvenient and pathologized.

Drug-testing for food stamps wastes taxpayer money and stigmatizes economic hardship.

This article explores the question of whether Jason Greenslate or any surfer deserves SNAP (food stamps) and other assistance from our government. The author gives a compelling argument …

The $956 billion farm bill that President Obama signed into law on Feb. 7 got mixed reviews from progressive advocates.

Due to pass into law as soon as this Friday, the bill does little to address poor nutrition, GMO and other unsustainable practices, and dangerous corporate control over the …

Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …

America's broken criminal justice system has consigned millions of people to poverty and poor health as they age. It's time for the aging community to fight.

Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”

Republicans would rather pad the wallets of the wealthy elite than put food on the tables of America's most needy and vulnerable.

This Friday, the SNAP program will be slashed by $5 billion anyway, thanks to the expiration of the 2009 Recovery Act that increased funding to that program.