People across the country formed long lines for free meals and groceries at food pantries and drive-through giveaways Saturday, after monthly benefits through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, were suddenly cut off because of the ongoing government shutdown.
The delay in SNAP payments, a major piece of the nation’s social safety net that serves about 42 million people, has highlighted the financial vulnerabilities that many face. At the Bronx food pantry, the Rev. John Udo-Okon said “people from all walks of life” are seeking help now.
“The pantry is no longer for the poor, for the elderly, for the needy. The pantry now is for the whole community, everybody,” Udo-Okon said. “You see people will drive in their car and come and park and wait to see if they can get food.”
Thank king trump for not releasing the emergency funds that are there for this exact reason. Thank you for starving your people trump!
I don’t think those funds are even there anymore, I think he stole that, too
They need it to fund poor ICE, obviously :(
Of course! How else will they human traffic the people who grow our food!
It would not surprise me.
and thank you democrats too for never upgrading the minimum wage to a living wage that would continue to adjust as needed and thank them for not getting us universal healthcare and thank the democrats for never ensuring education was properly funded!
definitely can’t forget to give thanks and to be thankful this month to our betters that serve the owner class the republicans and democrats
O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations,
Way to stay on topic, but yes… you’re on the right track, now look at it as……”thank you government for failing us”. We should stop fighting each other and fight who is responsible for all of this mess.
And thank the libertarians for Gary Johnson not knowing that Aleppo is a city in Syria and the greens for their disinterest in widespread local offices and lack of transparency, and the PSL for not running a more aggressive campaign or starting earlier, and the whigs for disbanding and leading to the Republican Party, right? If it’s “both sides,” it’s got to be all sides, unless you’re just only mad about democrats and trying to make it look like both sides.
I remember when the USA used to gloat about how in the USSR people had to stand in line for food.
The Cold war never ended and Russia just won it.
I’d call that a stretch, but the last thread just snapped lmao. Russia has been categorically worse off than any developed nation since Barbarosa, and even then, they had only JUST modernized from a 70% peasantry. If you’re going to compare SNAP lines to soviet breadlines and see people walking out with fresh fruits and cheez-its as opposed to half a loaf of moldy bread for a family of 8, then what you’ve said is utterly delusional.
You can frame it however you want and measure whatever metrics you want to justify your opinion.
It doesn’t change the fact that right now, I would rather live in communist Russia than fascist USA.
Putin is playing Trump like a puppet.
If you don’t see this, you are utterly delusional.
The door’s over there.
I’m sure Vlad would be happy to feed you into the meat grinder that is the war in Ukraine.
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Where do you live and why?
I think we all lost :(
Donate if you can. I just donated to my local food bank. I challenge you to do the same.
just in time for the people to understand where they’re at in the pecking order for thanksgiving 🌽🥧
Those that voted for this will never understand the pecking order. They will always think it is enough that they are not on the bottom, even if they are also drowning.
Remind me again why we’re the best country in the world?
Dont think I’ve ever heard anyone outside the US say that.
I’m sure the free market will provide for all these people, right?
Looks like the Great Depression is coming quickly.
food pantries are not just inadequate not even food banks just places that hordes old out of date food that no one else wanted or food given for a tax right off and people usually some HOA person that wants to feel good or a person that wants to show how much like jesus they supposedly are do community service at
did not meet the needs of the citizens before and will not now and were never properly funded and proper food bank infrastructure was never setup
these are just places handing out some old crap food that will not at the end of the day get anyone by
