Adjusted work requirements for able-bodied adults, revoked access to certain immigrant communities, freezing of the thrifty food plan, and shifts in state cost share responsibilities; we are headed toward a dumpster fire that can only be described as regressive and counterintuitive to the goal of “Making America Healthy Again”.

While global headlines captured attention, a quiet but crucial win for food access happened in the Senate. The SNAP cost-sharing proposal was removed, not by moral reckoning, but by a procedural rule.

Food policy is not written on paper alone. It shows up in the partnerships that allow markets to operate, pantries to stock shelves,...

New polling from Data for Progress shows that in every congressional district across the country, voters oppose cuts to SNAP. That includes Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

Food insecurity does not happen in isolation. It is deeply connected to wages, housing, transportation, healthcare, and longstanding disparities in opportunity.