The Open Door Senior Center in Manhattan welcomes community elders in an effort to stave off loneliness and hunger.

March 28, 2025 – Speaking at an event in West Virginia, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today announced that the Trump administration will start allowing states to prevent ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to make sweeping changes to his agency’s structure and workforce this morning, with the most significant job cuts planned ...

USDA is requesting farmers make changes to their projects so that they align with directives on energy production and DEI, a task experts say may not be legal or possible.

When farmer Kamal Bell first established a beekeeping operation at Sankofa Farms in North Carolina, his son Akeem was four years old and scared of bees. But with his father’s coaching—and the help of ...

March 27, 2025 – Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) will introduce a bill today that would require the USDA to release frozen grant funds, while also prohibiting the agency from terminating existing ...

Inside the commissary kitchen in West Philadelphia’s Dorrance Hamilton Center, a warming whiff of cinnamon, clove, and cumin fills the air, mingling with the comforting scent of beef simmered slowly ...

March 25, 2025 – During multiple fly-ins and town hall meetings, farmers and others working in the food system have been asking their representatives in D.C. for help navigating funding pauses and ...

It’s one of many waivers USDA is considering granting that could significantly change how the country’s hunger programs function.