The Farm Bill tried to cut about $8 billion from the food stamps program.

As a temporary increase in food stamp benefits expires, families and businesses prepare to get by on less.

Starting today, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps , will see a cut of $5 billion. Under the cuts, a family four will receive $36 less in benefits every month.

A 2009 extension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, expires today.

Starting today, Americans will get less in foods stamp assistance. We talk to one of them.

In an effort to get it passed, some in Congress want to split the food-stamps part of the bill from the farm subsidy part.

Democrats in the Senate agreed to an amendment that would ban anyone ever convicted of certain violent crimes from receiving SNAP food stamps — for their entire lives.

With one in five Americans on food stamps, some in Congress want to cut back on the program.

One woman's definition of a safety net: Something that lets you take risks, from going to school to flying from a trapeze.