The U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling states to begin turning over sensitive data on applicants to the food assistance program previously known as food stamps. The agency has recently expanded ...

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently announced a directive requiring states to provide full access to records related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Democratic-led states secured a legal victory to keep the personal data of food recipients out of the federal government's reach. But NPR's reporting shows that millions of records on Americans have ...

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Trump administration officials say the new data sharing requirements are meant to help prevent waste, fraud and abuse. California and other states questioned the administration’s intentions and said ...

The requested data would cover the time period from Jan. 1, 2020, to the present, the letter said. DCF’s SNAP data is held by a third-party database administrator, Fidelity Information Services LLC.

The Department of Agriculture is launching a new effort to shore up participation and retention in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC, a nutrition ...

As the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) makes sweeping demands on states and their contractors for the sensitive, personal data of tens of millions of food assistance recipients, one payment ...

Business titan and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg popularized the phrase: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” That phrase applies to every major institution in American ...

When Julliana Samson signed up for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to help afford food as she studied at the University of California, Berkeley, she had to turn in extensive, ...