The Latest Breaking News from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

More Than 1.5 Million Children Have Lost SNAP Benefits Since Last Year, New Analysis: This Are the Most Affected States

More than 1.5 million children across the United States have lost access to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since July 2025, according to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).

Latin Times · Jul 23

Did Hakeem Jeffries overstate share of veterans using food stamps?

Evidence shows Jeffries’s statement that about 20 percent of veteran households rely on food stamps is mostly false.

Al Jazeera · May 13, 2025

America's looming "hunger cliff"

As pandemic-era emergency SNAP benefits expire, millions of Americans face food insecurity

Salon · Mar 4, 2023

How Social Security works and what to know about its future

Tens of millions of older Americans will see a major increase in benefits this January when a new cost-of-living adjustment (or COLA) is added to Social Security payments

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2022