The government shutdown is closing in on some of the most vulnerable Californians: children and the elderly.
In California, 63.2% of SNAP participants fall on either end of that spectrum.
“We service 16,000 seniors, but we also do a backpack program for those kids who are food insecure,” said Josue Castro, direct services manager for the San Diego Food Bank. “We give them a free backpack they can take home for the weekend with fresh produce, some grains, rice and also some supplemental food to hold them over to the weekend.”
Four hundred fifty nonprofits collect food at the San Diego Food Bank to distribute at food drives almost every day in the county…