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SNAP benefits on the brink: Why health journalists should look beyond the cliff
If federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments cease on Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal funding standoff, millions of households will abruptly lose grocery dollars, with predictable downstream effects on health, access to care and community support. The USDA has warned that no SNAP funds will be distributed on Nov. 1 unless Congress…
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How to cover SNAP and WIC cuts after USDA ends food security reports
After nearly three decades of issuing annual reports on food security, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last month (Sept. 20) it would discontinue the Household Food Security Report after releasing the 2024 edition on Oct. 22. In the USDA’s announcement, the agency called the report, “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.” The agency added that…
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Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse
As physician and writer Jeremy Faust, M.D., put it this week, there are now two CDCs: one made up of the career public health officers trying to continue the work they’ve been doing for decades and another made up of a small group of people at the top who have mounted what former top CDC…
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Countering false and misleading claims about Tylenol and autism from the top
Journalists across the U.S. have been scrambling to keep up with a firehose of health misinformation coming from the administration since Monday’s Health & Human Services news conference debacle. Plenty of publications have already done a fantastic job of addressing the false or misleading claims by HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy and President Trump and providing…
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Gun violence prevention efforts and research the Trump admin has targeted so far
Since President Donald Trump returned to office, cuts and layoffs related to gun violence have hit the CDC, the National Institutes for Health and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Federal funding for research, only just made available six years ago, is also at risk. Government-funded community violence prevention programs and hospital-based intervention…
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Gun violence prevention efforts and research the Trump admin has targeted so far
Since President Donald Trump returned to office, cuts and layoffs related to gun violence have hit the CDC, the National Institutes for Health and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Federal funding for research, only just made available six years ago, is also at risk. Government-funded community violence prevention programs and hospital-based intervention…
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Covering the fallout of NIH funding cuts on health equity research
In mid-August, the New York Times reported that the National Institutes of Health was canceling dozens of research grants tied to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Just a week later, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with nearly $800 million in NIH cuts, a decision that will stall or end…
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