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.

A perfect example of a private company using the social safety net to increase their bottom line.

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.

Congressman Jim McDermott described Ryan's hearing on poverty perfectly when he said: “This hearing is surreal… You are not living in the real world.”

In contrast to rubbish that passes for conversation about hunger in Congress, NYC's recent Forum on the Future of Food offered substantive food for thought.