Las Vegas markets cut staff, hours after SNAP benefit changes

The goal of the Trump administration is to significantly shrink nutrition assistance programs. Last July, we saw the largest cuts to SNAP in history. And since then, millions of people have lost SNAP benefits in the states where data are available, including about 800,000 children. This was explicitly outlined in Project 2025, which called for making SNAP harder to access through stricter work requirements, tighter eligibility rules, fewer waivers, and other administrative barriers that would pu