Some Californians will now have to clear an additional hurdle to maintain their eligibility for food assistance, courtesy of Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Congressman David Valadao and his fellow lawmakers are currently deciding which Americans are worthy of receiving publicly funded health care and nutrition assistance, how much of it and for how long.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California county leaders are asking Newsom for more money to be budgeted for healthcare as federal funding cuts are expected to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JackF / iStock.com The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps feed millions of Americans each year. Yet, the aid ...

California is an agricultural Eden — sunlit orchards, strawberry fields and busy farmers’ markets form a state that grows half of America’s produce. Yet beneath this landscape of abundance, nearly one ...

Recently passed federal and state changes to medical and food programs will soon cost San Francisco more than $300 million a year, with the total then rising, according to a joint memo that The City’s ...

California’s two largest safety net programs — CalFresh and Medi-Cal — can reduce the cost of attending the state’s public colleges and universities by thousands of dollars, but more could be done to ...

Using a text messaging system, health care giant Kaiser Permanente signs up more than 11,000 of its neediest California members for government subsidies from CalFresh, so they can buy groceries. Getty ...

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