Onita Norris is constantly running the numbers to figure out the answer tosolve a problem with no good answer: Figuring out much her two children, both under 5, will have to eat, and how much she will have to go without.

While South Carolina has relied on private donations to fill in for food benefits, other states used their own general funds. Can SC do the same?

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a “food emergency” across the state Thursday as the federal government says SNAP benefits will run dry this weekend amid the federal shutdown.

The state is making another infusion of emergency food aid as 3 million New Yorkers face the looming expiration of nutrition assistance for the first time since the federal program began. The state is allocating $65 million to the state’s nutrition and farm-to-foodbank programs under a new emergency declaration,

Gov. Katie Hobbs says Arizona doesn’t have the resources to replace federal food-stamp benefits if the shutdown continues into November.

Milwaukee County approved spending $150,000 for food assistance to fill a gap left by the lapse of federal food assistance during the shutdown.

Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order to give $7 million to Ohio food banks and $18 million to low-income families.

Food banks and hunger relief organizations are seeing an increase in the number of people lining up for food packages and calling helplines since Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were halted on Nov.