The attacks on our social safety nets continue
But the money is there to actually do more.
Safety Net
Kentucky bill would further restrict who can get food assistance
Will kick thousands off of food stamps, according to some analysts
Got thoughts about letting 18 year olds conceal carry? KY Legislature doesn’t want to hear them.
Fast-tracking bills hurts democracy
Trump administration threatens to yank food stamp funding from KY, other Democratic-led states
Beshear: “Government should be fighting hunger, not causing it.”
‘Moral Monday’ protestors at Kentucky Capitol ask lawmakers to support people in poverty
“Let them walk a day in our shoes and see how much they keep cutting all these benefits that are helping to protect us.”
Beshear optimistic some Kentuckians will have full SNAP benefits restored by mid-month
Partial payments already issued is making the process more complicated.
Advocates call on Beshear to stop utility disconnections during the government shutdown
Over 40 organizations join the call to action
The nation’s largest food aid program is about to see cuts. Here’s what you should know.
The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Here’s a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.
Hunger as a weapon, dignity policing, and the GOP and Trump
“Stick to the Spam, and leave the cake to us”
Beshear sends state National Guard to staff food banks seeing ‘surge’ amid SNAP delays
600,000 on SNAP ... and seven food banks
Beshear: Partial SNAP payments to begin processing on Thursday
Payment dates will be staggered as usual.
The $5 million KY gave to food banks during SNAP delays heads out
Instructions: Buy food and give it away quickly
Trump administration to pay about half of November SNAP benefits amid shutdown
Judge orders payments, but Trump admin says it will take weeks or months to calculate the payments and send them out
Your grocery store will close without SNAP – in Trump country first.
12% of all groceries in the US are purchased with SNAP benefits. WAY more in rural Trump counties.
Food assistance funding cliff approaching as shutdown persists
Both parties trying to pass bills to fix the cutoff, but neither gets over the finish line.
KY’s Beshear joins challenge to Trump administration’s shutdown of SNAP food assistance
Food banks across state already feeling the pressure
