The U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling states to begin turning over sensitive data on applicants to the food assistance program previously known as food stamps. The agency has recently expanded ...

Democratic lawmakers expressed "deep concern" about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's intent to collect the personal data of tens of millions of federal food assistance recipients and sent ...

The Kansas state government has refused a data request from the federal government — eliciting allegations of a cover-up and potential efforts to force the data to be turned over. Gov. Laura Kelly's ...

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