Despite minimal income and at times having to live out of his car, Marc Craig was able to mostly manage his diabetes and kidney failure by carefully controlling his diet.
That was 2025. This year, after changes to Iowa’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program billed as bolstering healthy food, Craig says that has become a lot harder.
Craig, of Des Moines, is among the plaintiffs in a new lawsuit challenging sweeping changes to SNAP food restrictions in Iowa, Colorado, West Virginia, Tennessee and Nebraska. They are among 22 states that, with U.S. Department of Agriculture approval, have adopted definitions of food for SNAP eligibility that are more restrictive than the federal guidelines, according to the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, which is bringing the lawsuit…