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Breaking News. Late Friday night, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to pause food aid benefits while a lower appeals court decides whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will be paid out in full across the country this November.
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Updated 3:36 pm ET: In a memo sent from the USDA to state governments, the Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services is working to pay full SNAP benefits for November.
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Virginia Hedrick (Yurok) has been named the Chief Executive Officer of the California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB). Hedrick is the first woman to hold the position.
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The additional 40,000 pounds of food Lisa Ansell Frazier ordered in October for the Buffalo Youth Nation Project will stock food lodges onsite at four Wind River Reservation schools through December. The Sweet Grass Lodge, the second tribal food bank that Frazier (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) keeps stocked with traditional and local foods, also grew its inventory to distribute food aid to more people.
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People who receive food aid payments can now see how much they should receive from reduced benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is operating with $6 billion in reserve funding to feed roughly 42 million Americans during the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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On Monday, U.S. officials outlined plans to fully utilize $6 billion from a contingency fund to cover partial payments to states for people who receive food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet: Native Communities Can Safely Dispose of Unused Drugs This Saturday
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Melissa Skeet recounted the night she fled into the dark, wooded hill behind her apartment in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Dr. Donald Warne, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and Director of the Center’s Great Plains Hub, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)—one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
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States are scrambling to implement changes, and the federal shutdown is further threatening benefits.
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