Just as civilians can now purchase MREs to eat as emergency rations, some of the food in your pantry today was once field rations. Innovation in food processing and preservation methods that began in ...

American aircraft carriers are absolutely enormous. Apart from the aircraft, there are a lot of hungry mouths to feed. Here's ...

The government shutdown has surpassed one week and has put federal workers and military families in a financial bind, with food pantries in some portions of the country experiencing 30% upticks in ...

After hundreds of military families visited a free food distribution event, the shelves at the Five Star Food Market inside the Armed Services YMCA Killeen's location in Harker Heights, Texas, sit ...

The Armed Services YMCA is seeing a 30%-75% surge in demand nationwide. Food banks are seeing a surge of demand across the country as the government shutdown weathers its fourth week – and military ...

The government may be reopened and running as usual, but the record shutdown shined a light on how communities come together to combat issues like food insecurity. That includes areas rife with ...

Thousands of military families won’t receive federal food assistance next month as the government shutdown impacts funding to fight food insecurity. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that it ...

A man walks near the U.S. Capitol, where a political stalemate pushes the federal government shutdown into its second week. More than 250,000 federal employees missed their scheduled paychecks this ...

LACEY, Wash. — As the government shutdown stretches on with no end in sight, many military families in Washington state are facing new uncertainty: the arrival of their next paycheck. With service ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Claire Gunnison wanted to be an astronaut growing up. She decided that one of the ...