So far this year, 12 states have approved plans to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.

Six more states received waivers this week from the Trump administration to ban soda and candy purchases from public food ...

A child cannot flourish on Twinkies, candy and soda alone. Sadly, the state and negligent parents allow too many to try it.

The new waivers will restrict the purchase of so-called "junk food" with SNAP funds in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, ...

Columnist Pat Beall writes that recent exhortations from some Republicans to Make America Healthy Again seem a touch ...

Twelve states, including Texas and Florida, will restrict SNAP purchases of junk food like soda, candy, and desserts starting ...

There is now a bipartisan movement to ban SNAP benefits from being used to purchase junk food. Congress should make the ban permanent.

Starting Jan. 1, Florida’s SNAP recipients can no longer use their food stamp benefits to buy soda, energy drinks, candy, and ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked the federal government to carve out a ban on certain food bought with SNAP benefits.

Rep. Josh Breechan, an Oklahoma Republican, sponsored the Healthy SNAP Act. “If someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that’s up to them,” he said.

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...