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Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity

The move strips the government of its main gauge of hunger in America, and will impede efforts to track the impact of aid cuts.

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The Agriculture Department’s report measuring food insecurity has been published every year for three decades.
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States Grapple With Fundamental Change in Food Stamps

Whether states can find the money in their budgets — billions of dollars in some cases — will have wide-ranging, and likely uneven, consequences for some 42 million recipients.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The future of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is likely to vary from state to state.
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