Kai Sales finally saw a balance Friday — money to buy groceries — when she checked her online account for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits.
The full $508 arrived — almost double the previous month’s amount, so she could feed a new addition to the family, her 2-month-old daughter.
At the end of October, unsure when the benefits would load in a politically taut government shutdown, she and her husband stocked up at a pop-up food pantry on Halloween. It was a mobile Food for Lane County event her husband noticed on his drive home from his job working with lumber…