Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown.
“The average household that we see receives about $350 per month, which roughly translates to about $44 million worth of SNAP benefits that will be gone from families,” she told NPR. “There is no way that we alone can make up for a $44 million food budget shortfall.”
its brutal out there, CP24 Put out a thing saying something like 1 in 5 food bank users have jobs which is wild. isn’t that the whole point of the social contract? We provide productivity and in return the employer provides payment for you to live? what happens when thats not enough…
I think we’ve found out what happens. It’s happening now, and not for the first time.
Most species, we now believe, exist for a few millions of years. We might not even be a million years old, and for most of that we’ve been a constant companion to disaster. An unsympathetic observer might even see it as a defining trait.