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Onita Norris is constantly running the numbers to figure out the answer tosolve a problem with no good answer: Figuring out much her two children, both under 5, will have to eat, and how much she will have to go without.
While South Carolina has relied on private donations to fill in for food benefits, other states used their own general funds. Can SC do the same?
The state is making another infusion of emergency food aid as 3 million New Yorkers face the looming expiration of nutrition assistance for the first time since the federal program began. The state is allocating $65 million to the state’s nutrition and farm-to-foodbank programs under a new emergency declaration,
Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order to give $7 million to Ohio food banks and $18 million to low-income families.
The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program will run out of money on Saturday. Some governors are shifting state money to cover part of the shortfall, bolster food pantries or both.
Trump's social media post threatening to continue to withhold SNAP benefits contradicted his administration's stated plan to comply with court orders.
The Trump administration faces a new challenge in the battle over food assistance benefits amid a federal funding lapse — a lawsuit filed by recipients who say they’re in danger of going hungry.