Due to federal budget cuts, funding for the Maryland Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, also known as SNAP-Ed, ended on Oct. 1. SNAP-Ed offers lessons on healthy eating, gardening ...

A program in Maryland that helps low-income students and families lead healthy lives through increased food access, nutrition education and physical activity has turned to local governments for ...

Massachusetts is delaying the end of a federal nutrition education program designed to help people with limited income learn how to cook and eat healthy food. The organizations in Massachusetts who ...

SPRINGFIELD — The nutrition coordinators came to zhuzh up the lowly black bean. “Today, we’re making a cowboy caviar, which is a take on a salsa,” said Abigail Killian, standing by a table holding ...

The Garden Kitchen, a community effort that offered nutrition and health advice, is losing its main funding source, the SNAP-Ed program. SNAP-Ed, an educational component of the Supplemental Nutrition ...

Snapped Off: The Mobile Education Nutrition Unit (MENU), an Ohio SNAP-Ed teaching vehicle that made its debut this year, will now have to be sold per federal guidance. Credit: Pat Bebo, Ohio State ...

A critical program supporting healthy communities in Illinois and across the country took a devastating hit on July 4 when HR1, the federal budget reconciliation bill, was passed and signed into law.

University of Minnesota Extension laid off 60 full-time Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education educators in early July, effectively ending the program following federal cuts. The ...

Theo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger. The SNAP-Ed program — which focuses on nutrition education and overall wellness for people on food stamps — will end ...

The cuts will affect over a thousand Savannah residents served by Grow Initiative Georgia, a local nonprofit that provided personalized SNAP-Ed programming. Proponents of the cuts argue that SNAP-Ed ...

Elimination of SNAP-Ed funding leaves food pantries across the state uncertain of how to fill funding gaps, as many of which are hoping to rely on private support to maintain current nutrition ...

URBANA, Ill. — A critical program supporting healthy communities in Illinois and across the country took a devastating hit on July 4 when HR1, the federal budget reconciliation bill, was passed and ...