mid the current and second longest running government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—food stamps—would not be replenished starting on November 1. As state governments and food pantries scrambled to fill the gap, a federal judge ruled that the USDA must use a contingency fund to […] The post Trump leverages hunger as SNAP benefits go broke appeared first on South Side Weekly.
