Work requirements will encourage people who are able to work to seek and maintain jobs, proponents say. But researchers haven't found that they lower the unemployment rate.

WASHINGTON >> Retailers that accept food stamps would have to start stocking a wider variety of healthy foods or face the loss of consumers under proposed rules expected to be announced by the ...

Across the country, retailers and low-income Americans are facing complex new rules overhauling what millions of people can buy with food stamps. In Iowa, anti-hunger advocates recently sought to ...

Millions of low income households are about to discover that keeping food on the table now depends on meeting strict new work rules, not just financial need. Federal changes to the Supplemental ...