So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

A dozen states are banning people from buying sodas and some sugary snacks using federal food assistance. The effort is part ...

The administration is celebrating every example it can find of food companies replacing corn syrup with cane sugar or seed ...

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...

The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...

Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...

Twelve states, including Texas and Florida, will restrict SNAP purchases of junk food like soda, candy, and desserts starting ...

A child cannot flourish on Twinkies, candy and soda alone. Sadly, the state and negligent parents allow too many to try it.

There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked the federal government to carve out a ban on certain food bought with SNAP benefits.

Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.