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October 30, 2025 Karen Brown, New England Public Media SNAP benefits — once known as food stamps — are set to end Saturday. President Trump announced he would stop the federal program during the government shutdown, which no president has done before.  At one farmers market in Northampton, growers and consumers were trying to prepare for the…

Sera Congi   Ted Wayman Updated: 5:07 PM EDT Oct 30, 2025 Millions of dollars will be distributed to food banks across the state as more than 1 million Massachusetts residents are facing the loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday. SNAP cuts are currently on track to kick in Saturday…

October 29, 2025 Martha Bebinger The country’s largest food assistance program is set to lapse on Nov. 1 if the federal government shutdown continues. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, helps 42 million low income and disabled people across the U.S. buy groceries. The program has become a political football in the dispute between…

October 29, 2025 Amanda Beland Hundreds of Massachusetts children could lose access to Head Start early childhood education programs if the government shutdown continues into November. Six of the state’s 28 Head Start agencies are scheduled to receive federal funding on Nov. 1. But if the shutdown lingers, the money won’t be disbursed. Advocates and…

October 29, 2025 Chris Van Buskirk Top Massachusetts House Democrats made clear that they do not plan to turn to Massachusetts’ rainy day fund to bail out federal food assistance benefits that are set to run out of cash this week because of the federal government shutdown. Massachusetts has a roughly $8.6 billion reserve account elected officials…

By Brandon Truitt, Mike Toole Updated on: October 17, 2025 / 1:48 PM EDT / CBS Boston U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it had arrested more than 1,400 people in Massachusetts on suspected immigration violations over the past month in the latest round of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the Boston…

The Boston clinic’s move has prompted backlash from community members. By Beth Treffeisen October 15, 2025 Fenway Health, a cornerstone of Boston’s LGBTQ+ community, announced Monday that it will stop providing gender-affirming care for patients under 19 — a decision the clinic says comes in response to new federal requirements tied to its funding. The federally qualified health…

Carrie Jung July 24, 2025 On a May morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents broke through a van window in downtown Waltham in order to arrest two men inside. By mid-day, the city’s school superintendent, Marisa Mendonsa, started getting calls from teachers. They “had students coming to say that they had videotaped [the arrest], or they…

“Not only are our patients afraid to come into clinic, they’re afraid to get prenatal care, they’re afraid to call 911 — but also our colleagues are afraid to come into work,” a regional vice president with the Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU said. By Oscar Margain Published July 23, 2025 A group of health…

Miriam Wasser July 18, 2025 Kary Diaz Martinez was trying to do the right thing when she went to the immigration court in Boston last month for a scheduled hearing before a judge. She’d heard that agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were arresting immigrants at the courthouse, but decided to take her chances. She’s…