urban Democratic legislators seeking to maintain food assistance under attack from conservative budget cutters

Up to 2 million SNAP recipients could lose or have their benefits slashed under the proposed rule changes

Provisions inside the delayed House farm bill would roll back restrictions on the wealthy obtaining federal farm subsidies

fast food because they lack nutritional education, as some have argued. And though many poor neighborhoods are, indeed, food deserts—meaning that the people who live there don’t have access to a well-stocked supermarket—many are not. Lower-income families choose sugary, fat, and processed foods because the