SNAP (Food Stamps)

Colorado is running difficulties with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. It’s now one of the slowest states in the nation to fulfill food assistance requests. Jennifer Brown with The Colorado Sun reports the technology the state program uses is a major stumbling block.

The Farm Bill is up for negotiation in Washington, DC again. Every five years, lawmakers hammer out a massive federal funding package they call the Farm Bill, but it doesn’t just impact the agricultural community. All Coloradans have a stake in the 2023 Farm Bill.

SNAP recipients will see their benefits return to regular, pre-pandemic amounts starting this month. Larimer County’s food bank is trying to help reduce the fallout.

The U.S. Census Bureau released new data Thursday revealing nationwide declines in poverty – and highlights the big disparities that remain among Mountain West states.

The Department of Agriculture is proposing changes to its supplemental food program for women, infants and children, otherwise known as WIC. WIC served about 6.2 million people per month in 2021, including 43% of the country's infants.

On today’s episode of Colorado Edition, we learn about the winter weather Coloradans are expecting to see this winter after a hot, dry summer. We also look at one of the three statewide ballot questions voters are facing this November, and learn about the recent benefit increase for SNAP participants.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has recently boosted their benefits to the more than 499,000 participating individuals in the state .

The move is not enough to ease widening disparities in certain parts of the region, resort towns in particular, where service workers comprise the backbone of the economy as a constant stream of tourists and wealthy second-home owners drive up the cost of living.

Most students enrolled half-time or more in college typically aren't eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), sometimes known as food stamps. But temporary changes to the federal program are allowing some low-income students to take advantage during the pandemic.

A little boy in an orange shirt walks up to a grab-and-go meal site at an elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. A school worker wearing a mask uses...