The bottom line, according to Community Engaged Learning student worker Kira Schall, is that “having food security [is] not a privilege, but a basic right.”
At Drake University, student organizations are partnering with the IMPACT Community Action Partnership’s food pantry services to provide food access during the halting of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
SNAP paused during shutdown
On Oct. 1, the government shut down because Congress was seven votes short of the 60 needed to pass a spending plan that Democrats argued was not bipartisan in nature.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture posted a message on its website stating benefits from SNAP, which provides federal food assistance, would halt on Nov. 1 due to the shutdown. There was much back-and-forth between the courts and the presidential administration over the status of SNAP…