Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee is sounding the alarm as federal budget cuts threaten to leave thousands without adequate food assistance.
Nearly 250,000 people in Middle Tennessee rely on SNAP benefits, commonly known as food stamps, which face the largest cut in the program’s history under the President’s spending plan.
“Since 2019, there’s over 100,000 more people that are food insecure, so that has grown significantly. And when you look at just last year alone to this year, there’s been a 10% increase,” Nancy Keil, President and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, said…