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Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...
Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
South Carolina and Tennessee plan to restrict SNAP purchases to encourage healthier eating, part of the ‘Make America Healthy ...
The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...
RFK Jr held a press conference in DC to push SNAP reform while some Texans celebrated online SNAP and its health benefits.
Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked the federal government to carve out a ban on certain food bought with SNAP benefits.
Rep. Josh Breechan, an Oklahoma Republican, sponsored the Healthy SNAP Act. “If someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that’s up to them,” he said.
Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.
Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...
There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.
The Trump administration approved requests from another six states to prevent consumers from using food assistance benefits ...