NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Newport News nonprofit is expanding its services to help federal employees and their families navigate the ongoing government shutdown.
Thrive Peninsula, a free grocery store that serves families struggling with food insecurity, is offering walk-in hours and financial assistance specifically for furloughed workers affected by the shutdown that began Monday.
“When we had the government shutdown 6 to 7 years ago, we saw federal workers then. We saw people from NASA, we saw military folks come in who never accessed resources, had no idea how to do it,” said Angela York, Thrive Peninsula executive director…