‘We’ll be here’: Across three cities, communities step up as SNAP runs out

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Ebony JJ Curry , Gabriella Gladney , Lauren Nutall

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The government shutdown is entering its second month and there is no sign that Republicans or Democrats in Congress will be ceding ground anytime soon to bring it to an end.

On Saturday, funding for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — which helps millions of lower-income women, older and disabled Americans feed themselves and their families — will run dry.

For a single mother of four in Detroit, losing SNAP will upend the tenuous balance between caregiving and survival. For a pastor at a church in Dallas where the majority of members are LGBTQ+, it will be an inflection point in a defining moment for congregants already scarred by the discriminator