COLORADO (KOAA) — Meals banks throughout the state are feeling a pressure due to the shutdown. They are saying they’re seeing a surge in demand as a result of furloughed federal staff are coming to them for assist.
Wednesday, United States Senator Michael Bennet held a roundtable with native meals banks to debate the necessity.
Officers with a meals financial institution in Silverthorne say they’re already seeing the impacts on households.
“I do know that we now have plenty of households which are feeding their children they usually’re going with out (meals), or they’re watering issues down,” stated Brianne Snow with the Household and Intercultural Useful resource Heart. “…We’ve got one individual that instructed us, we’re… not consuming, we’re simply not consuming meals anymore.”
The state put aside $7.5 million in emergency funding in September to make sure households counting on meals help, together with SNAP advantages, wouldn’t lose assist at the least via October.
If the shutdown stretches into November, SNAP advantages might run out of funding, which means much more demand for Colorado meals banks.
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