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  • 10 months ago
As the federal shutdown threatens to shut down the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food banks and grocers are bracing for impact. In Bismark, North Dakota, the Great Plains Food Bank is considering starting mobile distribution routes and fundraising to ensure SNAP recipients still have access to food if their benefits dry up.
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00:01Like you mean it.
00:02Like that.
00:03To prepare for the possibility of SNAP pause,
00:06we are working with our local partners in all of the communities,
00:10shelters, soup kitchens, pantries.
00:12SNAP is a federally funded program.
00:14It is the most important, efficient,
00:17and the largest hunger relief program there is in the country.
00:21A pause on that is going to affect just in North Dakota,
00:2548,000 individuals.
00:30This is our mobile grocery store.
00:33It provides fresh food, predominantly vegetables and meat,
00:38and small rural communities.
00:40Quite a bit of our sales come from EBT recipients.
00:43Right now it's making up about 10 to 15 percent of our total sales a month.
00:49So we are concerned also that our sales will be impacted
00:53because now those funds won't be available to most of our customers.
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