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The 56-member Farm Bill conference committee met for the first time this week. The current Farm Bill, which sets agriculture and nutrition program policy…
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The USDA contract with the company that processes SNAP payments at farmers’ markets has ended. And while New York has come up with a stopgap measure until…
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand paid a visit to a farmers market in Poughkeepsie Monday. It provides access to fresh and healthy foods in a high-poverty,…
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Food stamp recipients will be able to use their benefits at farmers' markets across New York state under an agreement the state and the Farmers Market…
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Both chambers of Congress have passed versions of the 2018 Farm Bill and are now moving the bills to conference committee. As farmers and advocates in the…
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As President Donald Trump ponders a 30-percent cut to the nutrition program's budget, a new study finds the maximum SNAP benefit does not cover the cost…
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was in Troy Friday, talking about the Trump administration’s proposed budget that would cut SNAP benefits by $193 billion…
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In an effort to expose fraud involving Medicaid benefits and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments, Albany County Executive Dan McCoy and…
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Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty held a roundtable in Waterbury, Connecticut Wednesday to discuss the state’s use of a federal nutrition program.Esty, a…
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A proposal to curtail the nation's food stamp program has activists and politicians up in arms. Advocates for the poor worry President Donald Trump's $4.1…