Could you live on food stamps for a week? Several members of Congress are seeing if they can to raise awareness about poor Americans. From May 15-21 four lawmakers are buying food based on the average ...

How well can a family of four eat on just $68.88 a week? For more than 38 million Americans, it’s more than a matter of conjecture. With job growth and the economy still only sputtering along, a ...

Day 4 seemed more emotional than physical in response to this challenge people I know and don t know make assumptions that aren t true. We are not trying to live at the poverty level. We are feeding ...

NEW YORK (AP) - To much of the world, it was Monday. To Mario Batali, it was Day Four. The chef, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in ...

PHILADELPHIA AP - A congressman, the Philadelphia mayor and a trio of state legislators pledged Monday to live on $35 worth of food for the next week in what they said was an effort to show how hard ...

In an unprecedented situation, millions of Americans could lose access to a crucial food assistance program in the coming weeks amid the federal government shutdown. The US Department of Agriculture ...

So, you probably won't be surprised to learn that Gwyneth Paltrow has made some people upset. Again. This time, she was trying to do something noble — and notably difficult. But things are never that ...

Charity officials can often learn a lot by watching how politicians handle solicitations and other communications with their constituents. Katya Andresen in Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog points to ...

Fraud in the food stamp program is already a huge problem that costs federal taxpayers around $10 billion annually. The Senate might have just made that problem worse. A provision included in the ...

The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team ...