GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Local food banks, pantries, and feeding programs are doing what they can to keep food flowing to low-income households as they prepare for the loss of federal food assistance as soon as this weekend.

But those efforts are “not sustainable” in the long term, a top official with the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan says.

“I’m going to be very frank that there is not a way to fill the entire gap of what might happen long term,” said Kara Ross, president and chief executive officer of the Food Bank.

Ross told the county Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, Oct. 29, that the Food Bank, which works with hundreds of hunger-relief partners in 22 counties, has made preparations to increase deliveries with a suspension of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits loomi

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