Most U.S. states have experienced a decline in the number of households using the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government struggles after its major defeat in last year’s snap election.

Iowa's Republican U.S. senators joined nearly all their GOP colleagues to pass President Donald Trump's massive tax cut bill ...

Advocates warn that proposed cuts to federal food assistance programs could significantly impact thousands of Iowans who rely ...

The Senate is locked in a marathon voting session, with lawmakers debating hundreds of amendments to President Donald Trump’s ...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, questioned why only two states should receive “special treatment” in a GOP-backed plan to reduce federal dollars ...

Local nonprofit leaders met during a roundtable to discuss what possible cuts to SNAP, Medicare, and Medicaid could mean for ...

The CEOs of Project Now, River Bend Food Bank, Community Health Care and Humility Homes and Services held a roundtable ...

Republicans have contended that the program is plagued by fraud and that funds have been mismanaged, resulting in SNAP beneficiaries being over or underpaid. In the 2022 fiscal year, the latest year ...

Gabbie Marshall and some of her former Iowa women's basketball teammates made fun of an incoming freshman in a recent Instagram post.

Congress is debating a budget bill that could result in significant cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Those reductions would not only fall squarely on Iowa's most needy ...

Pam Demaria (left) and Lois Mather hold up their signs and cheer for one of the speakers during the Big Bad Budget Bill Press Conference at the Cedar Rapids Federal Building in southeast Cedar Rapids ...