W.Va. Biscuit Voted ‘South’s Best’
Tudor’s "Mountaineer” biscuit was named “The South’s Best Biscuit” in an online poll contest held by Garden & Gun, a southern lifestyle magazine.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Senate considered bills Friday on welfare programs, the Crown Act, oil and gas taxes, and a bill that would affect West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS) is encouraging female recipients of SNAP to apply for a manufacturing apprenticeship program.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA bill under consideration in the West Virginia Senate would require participants in a grocery assistance program receive job training if they are currently unemployed.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsRecipients of federal benefits like SNAP will have to have an identifying photo on their EBT card if a bill moving through the legislature becomes law.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, SNAP is a federal nutrition program – the name stands for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It used to be called food stamps. The program started as a pilot project in the 1960s in McDowell County. Trey Kay learns more about the program that some say has changed lives.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHunger and poverty are universal challenges, but in the U.S., for more than 50 years, support programs like SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, have provided help to those in need. On this Us & Them, host Trey Kay talks with three West Virginians — a retiree, a mom and a lawmaker — who all say that nutritional support has made a difference in their lives.
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