As cuts to food assistance come down from the Trump administration, Massachusetts will create an anti-hunger task force to advise on mitigating the losses, Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday.

The president's budget bill was six months in the making and a major legislative win from Republicans and the White House but food banks in Massachusetts are worried about its impact on them. The ...

Explore how recent federal budget cuts may hit blue states hardest and what it could mean for local economies.

The state budget slashed more than $40 million in funding for the Department of Transitional Assistance, which administers SNAP and other programs for poor families.

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts is looking to preserve programs that face cuts in the coming months because of the ...

Republicans are working to pass major federal cost cuts to the program, which provides monthly benefits to for some 40 million Americans.

From health insurance to immigration enforcement and higher ed taxes, the WBUR newsroom took a look at how some key ...

The Senate narrowly passed President Trump’s tax and spending plan Tuesday, making it one step closer to becoming law.

With the approval of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act last week, which includes $1.2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and ...

SNAP is first line of defense against hunger for millions of North Carolinians. If the Senate passes the budget bill cuts ...

President Trump's new bill includes cuts to SNAP, potentially impacting food assistance for many Kentuckians. The bill ...

Chicopee, MASS--Roughly 113,000 western Massachusetts residents rely on SNAP benefits and as concerns around looming federal budget cuts grow bigger, the area’s food bank said they worry it ...