Days after SNAP recipients finally received money to shop for groceries, uncertainty returned for many students, parents, and educators. Last Tuesday, Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon unveiled plans to transfer many Department of Education programs to other agencies—an unprecedented and illegal move that would send class sizes soaring, gut job-training opportunities, and […]

  The shutdown has ended, but its ramifications live on. The Republican majority exerted unprecedented pressure on the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP to help pay for food. Children, workers, and families were forced to make impossible choices just to get by—and used as pawns to further partisan priorities that threaten our democracy. […]

  Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for 42 million Americans, including 1 in 10 education support professionals, lapsed on Nov. 1—the same day draconian cuts and changes in SNAP, a centerpiece of the GOP’s reconciliation bill, began kicking in. When SNAP funding ran short due to the shutdown—now the longest in U.S. history—the Trump […]