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

A dozen states are banning people from buying sodas and some sugary snacks using federal food assistance. The effort is part ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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