The CEO of the Second Harvest Food Bank said she’s led the organization through multiple disasters — the 2007 financial crisis, COVID-19, and Hurricane Helene — but SNAP benefits going unfunded is something entirely new.
“It’s a disaster of a different kind,” Kay Carter said at a press conference in Charlotte on Wednesday. “I don’t remember a time when SNAP benefits weren’t paid out, even during the [government] shutdown.”
Carter, who spoke at the organization’s Spratt Street headquarters, said the group has delivered food boxes by tractor trailer to 24 North Carolina and South Carolina counties this week and last, and has plans to deliver more. Carter said she wasn’t sure of the exact number, but estimated they would deliver 100,000 food boxes by the end of the third week…