The concern for people struggling to pay for food is about to get more serious as CalFresh benefits for low-income families end later this month. The deadline will impact more than 2.9 million ...

President Donald Trump’s recent sweeping budget bill — referred to as the “big beautiful bill” — included major cuts to the federal food assistance program, SNAP. In the days following the passing of ...

Economic shifts at the federal level are set to redefine social welfare landscapes across the West Coast in the coming fiscal ...

The federal government’s cuts that affect California’s food assistance program, leaves Sacramento County dealing with a ...

A USDA proposal would require grocers participating in CalFresh to more than double the number of staple goods they carry, and a larger number of those staples must be perishable items. Getty Images ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, also known in California as CalFresh, provides eligible individuals with monthly financial assistance to purchase healthy food at grocery stores ...

With the federal government still shut down, CalFresh recipients will now officially see their November benefits delayed, according to the California Department of Social Services. The deadline for ...

A gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, a pound of chicken: That may be all the groceries some Californians can buy each month with their CalFresh benefits now that emergency federal pandemic ...