June is Pride Month, a time to pause and celebrate the incredible impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals historically and currently have on our world.
Today, Senate Agriculture Republicans shared their proposal for the Farm Bill. Similar to its counterpart in the House, the proposal fails to reverse or mitigate the unprecedented $187 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the budget reconciliation law, H.R. 1.
On June 22, 2026, a federal district court issued a significant ruling in Aragon v. Rollins, holding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) exceeded its legal authority when it approved state demonstration projects that restricted what Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants could purchase with their benefits.
New Bedford Public Schools served more than 1.2 million breakfasts, 1.9 million lunches, and 65,000 afterschool meals during the 2024–25 school year. On an average day, over 60 percent of the district’s students participate in school breakfast.
The budget reconciliation law, also referred to as H.R. 1,, marks a significant departure from the longstanding structure of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), one of the federal government’s most effective tools for reducing hunger and promoting economic stability. The law weakens multiple components of the critical support system shifts substantial financial responsibility from the federal government to states, and fundamentally alters SNAP’s financing model. Most notably, it requires states, for the first time in the program’s history, to cover a share of SNAP food benefit costs rather than limiting their contributions to administrative expenses.