Assemblymember Alex Lee announced on Wednesday that $20 million in the 2026-27 fiscal budget has been allocated to restart the CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program after the program paused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy Gonzalez, right, and Felix Acevedo work in the produce area at a Vons in Torrance. As of December, 4.6 million people in ...

The new program gives nutrition assistance recipients in some neighborhoods another option just as new, more restrictive ...

CalFresh, California’s largest food assistance program, helps provide low-income families and individuals who meet federal income eligibility rules with monthly food benefits. The program, known ...

The loss of the CalFresh Healthy Living program will “have a dampening impact” on local health departments’ capacity, according to the Nutrition Policy Institute.

Many California community college students and University of California students are eligible for CalFresh, the state’s food assistance program for low-income Californians, but most eligible students ...

Once, an extra $10 a month on government assistance checks kept nearly half a million poor Californians from being eligible for the federal program that puts food on people’s tables in other parts of ...

SACRAMENTO — With many Californians losing income and jobs, the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic has spurred a record surge in the number of applications for CalFresh, the state’s food stamp ...

Lucy Gonzalez, right, and Felix Acevedo work in the produce area at a Vons in Torrance. As of December, 4.6 million people in California — nearly 12% of the population — received monthly food benefits ...