Jobs and Income

SNAP turns 40: Providing sustenance for working poor families

Friday, September 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the 1977 Food Stamp Act, the landmark law that established the nation’s modern anti-hunger program—as it’s now known, the […]

Jody Harris

Posted September 29, 2017

Tags Food Insecurity, SNAP

Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

U.S. House Budget Committee is scheduled to review a budget resolution that makes hard-working families pay more and worsens budget deficits with massive tax cuts for the […]

Posted July 19, 2017

Tags Federal, Health Care, Higher Education, Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP

Taxes and Budget

Trump budget would shift huge SNAP costs to Maine and put more Mainers at risk of going hungry

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Posted June 13, 2017

Tags Budget, Federal, SNAP

Maine’s Economy

Governor's Own Report Reveals the Human Cost of His War on the Poor

Destitute and driven deeper into poverty. That’s the result of the LePage administration’s policies for one in seven families removed from the state’s welfare program in 2012. […]

James Myall

Posted June 1, 2017

Tags Economy, Poverty, SNAP, TANF

Maine’s Economy

SNAP Works for America’s Children (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) delivers more nutrition assistance to low-income children than any other federal program, making it the nation’s largest child nutrition program. In […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 29, 2016

Tags Children, SNAP

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

LePage administration’s crusade against food stamps hurts the economy; does nothing to help the poor

A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) provides further confirmation of a depressing trend—hundreds of thousands of Mainers remain impoverished and food […]

James Myall

Posted May 4, 2016

Tags Children, Economy, Food Insecurity, SNAP

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

Thousands of Maine’s Poorest Residents Are Left to Go Hungry

In Maine, some of our poorest neighbors have lost a critical tool to help them get enough to eat each day. In 1996, Congress dictated that able-bodied […]

Jody Harris

Posted April 1, 2016

Tags Children, Food Insecurity, Poverty, SNAP

Maine’s Economy

Is DHHS SNAP mismanagement putting Maine families at risk of hunger?

In a blistering editorial published in today’s Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, and Central Maine Morning Sentinel, MaineToday Media condemned the Maine Department of Health and Human […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 15, 2015

Tags Food Insecurity, SNAP

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

Mainers’ food security depends upon a stronger, improved SNAP

Over the course of one year, nearly 1 in 5 Mainers will rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put food on the table. […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted August 10, 2015

Tags Children, Food Insecurity, SNAP

Jobs and Income

LePage Proposal Will Exacerbate Maine’s Hunger Crisis

The facts are shocking. In the U.S. today, 1 in 7 Americans―more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors―rely on food pantries […]

Jody Harris

Posted August 19, 2014

Tags Food Insecurity, SNAP

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SNAP turns 40: Providing sustenance for working poor families

Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

Trump budget would shift huge SNAP costs to Maine and put more Mainers at risk of going hungry

Governor's Own Report Reveals the Human Cost of His War on the Poor

SNAP Works for America’s Children (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

LePage administration’s crusade against food stamps hurts the economy; does nothing to help the poor

Thousands of Maine’s Poorest Residents Are Left to Go Hungry

Is DHHS SNAP mismanagement putting Maine families at risk of hunger?

Mainers’ food security depends upon a stronger, improved SNAP

LePage Proposal Will Exacerbate Maine’s Hunger Crisis