Anti-Poverty Summit in OC tries to spark shift for what might be an act of resistance – Orange County Register

Any effort to change society in a huge way – or even to do something as vanilla as fighting poverty in a community that’s widely perceived as comfortable, like Orange County – depends on timing.

Consider:

A day before a few dozen Southern California nonprofits gathered for an event billed as the Anti-Poverty Summit, which was held Thursday, Oct. 2, at UC Irvine, new federal budget rules kicked in that will make it harder for low-income, homeless and disabled people to get food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

It’s unclear if the new work-requirement rules for SNAP have been enforced; the federal government shutdown makes such information hard to get. But state budget experts project that as the SNAP rules take effect, they’ll