Food banks prepare for surge
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The federal government will stop payments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients if the shutdown continues. Food bank volunteers in Southwest Virginia are mobilizing to help.
We’re doing everything we can to prepare as if it will happen, and we need community support,” said Treasure Coast Food Bank chief strategy officer.
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.
Second Harvest is a food bank, one of five Feeding America nonprofit organizations in the Volunteer State, that supplies individual food pantries across 18 counties in East Tennessee. The nonprofit distributes food and resources to 700 smaller food banks ...
More than a dozen large and small charitable nonprofits told CNN they have exceeded their ability to help and warned that the level of support they can provide will fall far short.
It's November 1, when almost 500,000 Nevada families would usually start to receive their SNAP benefits for the month. Now, people are wondering where their next meal will come from.
Just a few years ago, the Community Access Center’s food pantry here served up to 250 families per month. But that figure has skyrocketed as the price of groceries has pinched more and more families.
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