The Food Bank of Northern Nevada faced heavy strain during the federal food benefits cutoff and the holiday influx. Now, food banks worry future changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are going to bring more food insecurity to the state.
During the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history, millions of Americans were cut off from SNAP on Nov. 1. This included the 495,000 SNAP recipients in Nevada, according to the governor’s office.
At the time of the shutdown, food banks were bracing for an estimated 48,000 Reno-area residents to lose access to federal food benefits…