Some work rules sound so strange now, you’d swear they were jokes, but they were once mandatory. The shift didn’t come with announcements or memos, yet dozens of long-standing office expectations ...

Distributing food stamps soon could get even harder for Missouri’s food aid system, which a federal judge has already called “broken and inaccessible.” States depend heavily on federal funds to ...

Lori Kelley’s deteriorating vision has made it hard for her to find steady work. The 59-year-old, who lives in Harrisburg, N.C., closed her nonprofit circus arts school last year because she could no ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture ended Oregon’s SNAP work-rule waivers in November. Because of this, Oregon began applying the work rules statewide Dec. 1, expanding from six ...

Kenny Robinson Sr. moves quickly Monday through the one-room food pantry inside Chosen Bethel Family Ministries in Englewood on the South Side. He drops bags of spaghetti into more than a dozen ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. If Congress moves forward with a controversial proposal to ...