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The president's budget bill is a major legislative win for Republicans but food banks in Massachusetts are worried about its impact.
As cuts to food assistance come down from the Trump administration, Massachusetts will create an anti-hunger task force to advise on mitigating the losses, Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday.
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts is looking to preserve programs that face cuts in the coming months because of the ...
Chicopee, MASS--Roughly 113,000 western Massachusetts residents rely on SNAP benefits and as concerns around looming federal budget cuts grow bigger, the area’s food bank said they worry it ...
Gov. Maura Healey has created a task force aimed at helping the state fill an expected gap in federal funding for food insecurity programs.
With steep cuts to federal food assistance signed into law, state leaders in Massachusetts are looking to get ahead of the worst possible outcomes while pinning down how to address hunger in the ...
From health insurance to immigration enforcement and higher ed taxes, the WBUR newsroom took a look at how some key ...
With the approval of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act last week, which includes $1.2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and ...
A recent study by the Greater Boston Food Bank and Mass General Brigham found that food insecurity continued to rise across ...
But on Monday mornings, when the downtown feels shuttered, another sort of crowd, one in search of food, not art and ...
Nourish Food Bank staff foresees more people needing help after President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" spending cuts to food stamp benefits.