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.”
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.