Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins speaks with food policy journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich about why the number of people receiving federal food assistance has hit its lowest point in nearly 20 years.
Experts chalk up a lot of it to the One Big Beautiful Bill, which made the largest cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in its history.
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