Congressional cuts to the food stamp program went into effect this week, making it much harder for struggling families to make ends meet.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...

Since 1996, the number of families with children living in extreme poverty — that is, on $2 a day or less — has gone up nearly 130 percent.

Take a look inside America’s first nonprofit grocery store, which is bringing fresh food to a struggling community in Pennsylvania.

The right-wing echo chamber has vilified food stamp users with a variety of absurd lies and myths. As a result, people will go hungry.

Many of the politicians who rail against SNAP in Congress bring home huge sums of federal assistance to their supporters.

A new USDA report released today says that millions of Americans live in food-insecure households. Child hunger expert Dr. Mariana Chilton explains why programs like SNAP and WIC need to be expanded.

A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.”

Paul Ryan declined to invite struggling mother Tianna Gaines-Turner to speak before his poverty hearing, but here's what she would have said.

Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton reveal tragic truths about hunger and food insecurity in America.