The concern for people struggling to pay for food is about to get more serious as CalFresh benefits for low-income families end later this month. The deadline will impact more than 2.9 million ...

Recipients of the CalFresh food program will see a significant jump in payments starting Friday — just as some of California’s major coronavirus-related benefit programs end. CalFresh benefits will go ...

Economic shifts at the federal level are set to redefine social welfare landscapes across the West Coast in the coming fiscal ...

The California Association of Food Banks released a new report showing a rise in food insecurity after emergency allotment ended in March of last year. FOOD INSECURITY IS ON THE RISE. AS OF APRIL, ...

The California Food Stamps program is known as CalFresh and is designed to help low-income families and individuals obtain resources to purchase healthy and nutritious food for their households.

The ending of emergency food benefits this month amounts to 7.7 million fewer meals each month for San Diego County residents in need, research published Tuesday by the San Diego Hunger Coalition ...

A day after a KCRA 3 investigation found that the state's CalFresh and CalWorks programs are losing millions of dollars a month to organized crime, the Department of Social Services – which oversees ...

When Jessica Rangel first moved to Berkeley, she knew she would need help to survive the costly Bay Area. Rent and food were expensive, and her budget as a master’s student at UC Berkeley only ...

Few college students participate in the state’s CalFresh food program despite being eligible, according to a report published Tuesday by the University of California’s California Policy Lab. The ...

California, a state with the nation’s highest poverty rate, consistently ranks near the bottom when it comes to enrolling low-income people in CalFresh, the state’s name for the federal food stamp ...

The County of Sonoma is exercising great caution to help slow the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and to ensure that individuals and families in our community remain as healthy as possible.