Earlier this week, Gov. Bob Ferguson directed almost $2.2 million in state funding per week to provide additional support to Washington’s food banks as working families brace for their federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to freeze due to the ongoing, Republican-driven shutdown of the federal government. That’s cool. It’s not enough. As Ferguson acknowledged in his press release earlier this week, about 930,000 Washingtonians receive SNAP benefits. The shu...
