SNAP serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans.
One of the biggest impacts of the government shutdown is about to hit tens of millions of the poorest Americans hard: the halting of a critical food assistance program.
Several states are now warning they will be forced to suspend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits come Nov. 1 if the shutdown continues.
SNAP, often referred to as “food stamps,” serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans. The program, run by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, issues electronic benefits that can be used like cash to purchase food.
How about instead we focus on that fantastic $250+ million ballroom none of us will ever see or use? Surely that will help with whatever hunger we are disgraceful enough to have!
- Texas (Oct. 27)
- Washington D.C. (November 2025)
- Washington state (November 1st)
- Pennsylvania
- Minnesota
- New York
- WIC [USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children] (Nov. 1)
Reminder to donate to your local food pantries if able.
Also add Washington state to that list, I just checked the DSHS page. Payments will stop Nov. 1st.
Also, when donating to local food pantries, remember that donations of money go farther and feed more than donations of food. Food pantries have access to economies of scale and can buy food cheaper than an individual can. So you’ll increase your impact if you just donate your cash straight to the food pantry, rather than going to the grocery store to buy food to donate. In addition, the food pantry will be able to more accurately supply what people actually need and stock what they are short on, rather than you just guessing.
What is the status of the states that are not listed?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
the Republican party
3 meals away from riots.
Simple answer: Eat the rich.
It’s mostly plastic, so: no thanks
Can we like, throw the meat away instead of eating it? Prime Bezos meat cuts don’t sound terribly appetizing
This is what they are looking for. They want to squeeze people so that they will snap. They will use any ensuing violence as an excuse to remove more of our freedoms.
And my extended family is poised to strike at those evil democrats because almost all of them are fox-pilled.
Yup. Trump is doing long-term damage and these guys are gonna go and blame the dems when the longer lasting effects (of non-Dem related things) hit them down the line when someone else is in charge.
Although I may be optimistic saying when someone else is in charge.
Eat them too.
I can imagine that they’d probably be bitter, and also terrible for the cholesterol
Probably get a little lead poisoning along with it.
At least you won’t have to worry about choking on a tooth or something
Or a spine!
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Good. I’m glad it’s shutting down. How dare poor people feed themselves? Like, you expect to get free money? Just like Dumpy getting his $230M from the DOJ. He EARNT that money. /s
MAGA already has the cult convinced it’s the Dems fault. So this won’t tip them, but most people getting SNAP? Republicans
and MEDICAID/care too.
I follow too many Linux communities… I had to read way too much of this before realising it wasn’t about that
OMG, if the government shutdown could end snaps for app installs, I would be so happy.
AppImage or die.
Haha, nice!
the snap benefits got the SNAP.