Food banks, which have already risen to the challenge of assisting furloughed federal workers, now face a potentially much bigger shutdown-induced problem: extra demand for food from people facing longer-than-usual gaps between their monthly SNAP payments. When the government resolved a potential disruption in SNAP by issuing February benefits early,…
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As the government shutdown grinds on, strategies for serving furloughed employees are top of mind for the nation’s food banks, even as uncertainty mounts over the future of SNAP payments. Many food banks are treating the slowly unfolding crisis of the shutdown much as they would a natural disaster —…