The Trump administration rule jeopardized benefits for hundreds of thousands across the country.

SNAP participation has increased dramatically in D.C., Maryland and Virginia since the onset of the pandemic.

Local and federal aid is being offered to help soften the economic blow of the pandemic.

Roughly 16,500 District residents could potentially lose their access to the critical benefit, plus thousands more in surrounding areas of the region.

A day after finishing a week-long diet in which she attempted to eat no more than $30 worth of groceries, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) sponsored a resolution bemoaning planned federal cuts to food stamp programs.

As she predicted, an anti-hunger activist who put herself on a $30 food budget for the past week is feeling kind of lousy.

Could you feed yourself on $30 worth of groceries a week? Anti-hunger activists and a few District officials are seeing if they can live on a food stamp budget.

The Washington area continues to be home to most of the list of the United States’ 10 richest counties, but the gap between the region’s highest and lowest earners continues to expand, according new Census data.

Can you survive on $4.44 a day for food? Like D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton before him, star chef Mario Batali is having trouble.