Some 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images News Tracy Roof, University of Richmond The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The number of people getting SNAP benefits soared during the Great Recession, a big ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexie Espinal, 20, of Danbury, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday after ...

Although the program costs billions, the benefits that families and individuals can receive from it are modest. The most a person living on their own can get is $298 a month, but many people receive ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Conversation U.S. asked Tracy Roof, a political scientist who has researched the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) "The roughly 1.4 million square feet of office space comprising Merritt 7 Corporate ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) There will be no impact to routine passenger train traffic, the New Haven Fire ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Because of high unemployment and poverty rates, more people were eligible for SNAP ...