SPRINGFIELD — For every meal a food pantry provides a hungry family, government grocery assistance provides far more, according to a leader at a Western Massachusetts charity.
Local food pantries will face a fresh onslaught if additional cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, proposed by the Trump administration come to roost.
“I think there’s a misunderstanding in government thinking, that charity can fill the gap and we just can’t,” Christina Maxwell, chief programs officer at the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts said during an interview Wednesday…