State leaders are in crisis mode as the weekend approaches. The ongoing government shutdown means SNAP benefits will be put on hold. That will result in 600,000 Coloradans -- half of them children -- ...

A growing number of states are set to change what millions of Americans can buy with food assistance benefits, as new rules ...

A panel of Colorado legislators on Thursday approved a $10 million cash infusion into food assistance for residents who are expected to lose food stamp benefits starting on Saturday amid the federal ...

Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee has unanimously approved spending $10 million from the state’s reserves to shore up food banks and food assistance programs while SNAP benefits are suspended due to ...

Colorado’s food relief organizations said they fear Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding would be withheld from the states, including Colorado, amid a dispute between the Trump ...

Food banks and local assistance programs are expecting to feed thousands of additional Coloradans amid the lapse of SNAP benefits in November. Many reported seeing increasing demand in late October.

President Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back nearly a century in the ...