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'Seniors will go hungry. Families will go hungry.': As SNAP funding dries up, food banks see growing lines
The line outside St. Mary’s Food Bank in west Phoenix stretched for blocks again Friday, as Arizona families faced another day of uncertainty over where their next meal would come from. Food banks across the state are reporting a spike in demand — with ...
To help meet the community’s needs, the Weld Food Bank has added food distribution hours, scheduled additional mobile food pantry stops and purchased nearly $250,000 of additional food.
At midnight tonight, SNAP benefits for more than 40 million Americans will expire along with Head Start programs across the country. Joining The Weeknight to respond: President of the New Mexico Association of Food Banks Jill Dixon and Tommy Sheridan,
Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency and the Yolo Food Bank are preparing for emergency food distributions to residents in need with the possibility of SNAP food assistance delays. The distributions are scheduled for the first two weeks of November,
President Trump announced that a private donor paid $130 million to cover some military salaries. Plus, the Capital Area Food Bank is teaming up with non-profits to offer meals to furloughed federal workers in the D.
Update: On Friday, two judges ordered the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the federal government shutdown. This means no new (SNAP) funds will be added to the EBT debit cards that 40 million Americans and approximately half a million Philadelphians use to pay for groceries.