WASHINGTON – Millions of women and children could lose out on special food benefits if the federal government stays shut down for long. Unlike Social Security, Medicare and the program formerly known ...

Fresh fruit without sugars is an eligible food under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. More than a million low-income mothers and children in the Midwest and ...

An injection of $450 million for WIC comes as the Trump administration announced it would only fund partial benefits for another food aid program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or ...

A national program providing children facing food insecurity backpacks filled with shelf-stable, healthy items received a big monetary boost from Abbott in Lake County. Employees of the health care ...

Because Wednesday marked the start of the 2026 fiscal year, the WIC program — which provides free, healthy food to low-income pregnant women, new moms and children under 5 — was due for an influx of ...

A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing states to use their ...

The food pantry volunteers at Southeast Linn Community Center were worried. They had just driven a pair of pickup trucks 50 miles roundtrip to load up boxes of chicken nuggets, eggs and canned tuna, ...

Lee will seek new funding for the state’s smaller-scale summer feeding programs when he proposes the state budget next month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing ...