Bread of the Mighty in Gainesville started an emergency food distribution program last week to deal with higher demand from SNAP recipients and other food-insecure families in Alachua, Levy, Gilchrist and Union counties.
The emergency program starts as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ends because of the federal shutdown. The money that usually arrives with the first of the month didn’t come for November.
Patrick Dodds, executive director of Bread of the Mighty, told Mainstreet that even if the federal government ended the shutdown today, funding to restart SNAP would still be weeks away and the dominoes of local impacts have already begun falling…