This August marked the 50th Anniversary of the Food Stamp Program, currently the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. As we look back on these 50 years, it is important to bring attention to the innovative ways in which Snap has provided nutritional assistance to millions of low-income individuals and families, as well as its efforts to bring health and economic benefits to communities. One of the most recent ways we have seen this innovation is through the abil

Election Day is just two weeks away and the issues that matter to us most are being decided at the polls. Hunger-Free Pennsylvania has been working year-round to ensure that anti-hunger programs statewide receive the resources needed for food-insecure Pennsylvanians. But on Nov. 4, we need your help to elect individuals who will support Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable populations. Today, providing aid to those in need has become politically diverse. Nowhere is that more evide

The House and Senate Agriculture committees have announced a compromise on the federal farm bill, potentially ending a two-plus-year fight over the enormously complex measure, which includes funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, known better as “food stamps.” It’s hard to celebrate this legislation, when it includes a roughly $8 billion cut over 10 years to food-stamp funding, which is considered the most partisan issue in the 949-page bill. But