Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego is urging families who have lost federal food aid to use a new, free city program that helps them get through the paperwork now required to keep SNAP benefits.
“As a parent, I know it’s not kids’ responsibility to put food on the table, and that nutrition early on has such a lifelong impact,” Gallego said Thursday on KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Arizona’s Morning News.
Arizona has seen the steepest SNAP decline in the nation. Arizona’s SNAP caseload fell nearly 50% in a year, from 444,810 households in May 2025 to 224,143 in May 2026, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data…