{
  "id": 14314686,
  "title": "Cuts to SNAP benefits push many Americans to seek help from food banks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/cuts-to-snap-benefits-push-many-americans-to-seek-help-from-food-banks",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-13T22:25:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PBS NewsHour",
    "slug": "pbs-newshour",
    "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/cuts-to-snap-benefits-push-many-americans-to-seek-help-from-food-banks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "More than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. The bill cut SNAP funding, expanded work requirements and recently pushed more program costs to states. As Stephanie Sy reports, that's meant many more people are turning to food banks for support.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}