SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Starting October 1, nearly $188 million in federal funding for CalFresh nutrition education through SNAP-ED is gone. The loss comes as the CalFresh program navigates additional changes and local food banks work to meet an increase in demand.
At River City Food Bank’s Arden Arcade location, volunteers were hard at work Wednesday morning distributing food to hundreds of people lined up for assistance.
The federal spending bill passed over the summer has led to deep cuts for CalFresh at a time when food banks are seeing record demand…