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With steep cuts to federal food assistance signed into law, state leaders in Massachusetts are looking to get ahead of the worst possible outcomes while pinning down how to address hunger in the Commonwealth.

(Airs 05/16/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calls on New Yorkers and all Americans to protect the federal food program SNAP, we’ll track federal funding cuts impacting rural, Northern NY, and State lawmakers are taking a fresh look at food regulations.

Healthcare workers from across the Capital Region gathered Saturday to voice concern over the Trump administration’s healthcare policies and proposed funding cuts.

Officials in Springfield, Massachusetts are asking the Healey administration to give local restaurants another chance to take part in a pilot program involving food stamps.

A listening session on the upcoming Farm Bill was held recently in Binghamton.

This month, a Berkshire County nonprofit that supports local farms is holding a fundraiser to make Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – or SNAP – dollars go farther at farmers markets in the region.

Poughkeepsie Farm Project is launching a new program to increase local food access.The Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s CSA is a SNAP offers a 50 percent…

An effort is underway to get farm-grown fresh food to more low-income people in western Massachusetts this year.CISA ( Community Involved in Sustaining…

As a federal shutdown looms, a group of Democratic and independent Senators are seeking to maintain funding for a federal program that provides food…

A federal judge has ruled in favor of states that filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump Administration from eliminating food assistance under the…