The 2008 Food and Nutrition Act allowed the secretary of Agriculture to grant waivers for states or counties with high unemployment rates. For years, all SNAP recipients in Illinois have been exempt ...

Food insecurity stretches into the suburbs and small towns across the state. John and Loretta Arient bear daily witness to ...

“We want Illinoisians throughout our state to understand the ripple effects of the Trump administration’s cruelty and be ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” offers tax cuts to the wealthiest at the expense of low-income children’s health and education.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a generational attack on poor and working-class people, writes Nkechi Taifa.

The Trump administration barred undocumented immigrants from Head Start and other federal benefit programs — a move ...

A deficit of $5 million over 10 years is a serious blow to a mid-major college athletic program such as Illinois State. ISU ...

The plan is the latest step by the Trump administration to gather sensitive information about people living in the U.S. as it ...

Three Democratic-led states that led the way in offering free health care to low-income people who are in the U.S. without ...

Several state Head Start associations and parent groups are challenging a Trump administration effort to bar undocumented ...

With fall camp less than 10 days away, here are five reasons the Oklahoma Sooners will be much better in 2025.

My favorite interview last week was 90- year-old Illinois farmboy John "Jack" Block. While secretary, Block's son and father operated Block Family Farms and he said he saw the farm's equity plunge by ...