Creator Kiki Ruff teaches her viewers to cook on a budget using skills she learned during her time on food stamps. Along the way, she’s racked up over half a million followers.

Plus, how communities are stepping up to feed their neighbors.

42 million Americans rely on SNAP.

Many groceries rely on customers with food stamps, especially in low-income and rural areas.

Recent spending cuts to rural safety net programs have some bracing for financial hardship, in light of what they went through during the Great Recession.

Thousands of grocery stores around the country rely on customers who pay with SNAP benefits. Some could close because of cuts Congress just approved to the food assistance program.

SNAP, otherwise known as food stamps, only provides around $6 a day per person on average — and lawmakers recently moved to spend even less on the program.

The budget reconciliation bill that just passed includes billions of dollars less for SNAP over the next decade.

Food banks have less to give this summer since the federal government cut millions in USDA funding.

Passing on the cost burden for states could have major consequences for programs’ eligibility, and for taxes.