food stamp

States are starting to cut off food stamps for 41 million Americans, Head Start will soon run out of money, and air-traffic-control sick-outs are beginning to snarl travel.

The program, known to many as food stamps, serves 42 million Americans at a time when grocery prices are already high.

The benefits, issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and formerly called food stamps, include federally funded benefits loaded onto CalFresh cards.

Austin Beagle, 31, and Nevada Barker, 30, said they were trying to sign up for food stamps this spring when someone offered them a background role outside a county social services office in Long Beach.

Consider just the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, better known as food stamps.