{"id":133300,"date":"2025-09-04T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133300\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:39:07","slug":"nutrition-program-snap-ed-ending-at-the-u-of-a-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133300\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition program SNAP-Ed ending at the U of A | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) will conclude at the University of Arizona by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>This development follows U.S. Congress&#8217;s decision to cut its funding from the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Arizona stated that SNAP-Ed has been a vital source of nutrition education across all 15 Arizona counties.<\/p>\n<p>The university reported that many educational programs conducted at community sites, including schools, senior centers, farmers&#8217; markets, and food pantries, have relied on SNAP-Ed funding.<\/p>\n<p>The funding cut means there will be fewer staff available to deliver these programs and no SNAP-Ed funds to cover associated costs such as travel, materials or site-based activities.<\/p>\n<p>The elimination of SNAP-Ed funding was part of a broader federal spending bill signed by President Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) will conclude at the University of Arizona by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1017,97,3729,3,269,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-133300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nutrition","13":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}