Food Stamp Work Rules Don’t Increase Employment, Researchers Say By Taylor Sisk April 23, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/food-stamps-snap-work-requirements-hunger-west-virginia-foodbanks/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9qd0f6veXPeGhhyeaJH5q-Bso41yvPTsY0PUVc3LZbquKzSdCBTDrKvMTQRm_LNsQXto5UcgCou1WlVGaog1Z2YfYHGg&_hsmi=415323197&utm_content=415323197&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: Food Stamp Work Rules Don’t Increase Employment, Researchers Say A half-dozen cars had been in the queue for nearly four hours by the time the House of Hope mobile food pantry line began to move. Seventy or so more idled behind them by 11:30 a.m., when the food distribution began. The plan was to begin handing out boxes of groceries at 11, but the Facing Hunger Foodbank truck delivering the food blew a tire en route. No one complained. (Sisk, 4/23)