Food pantries around Southwest Michigan are seeing the community come out in support of an expected increase in demand as uncertainty grows about the federal Supplemental Food Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Bob Murphy is the director of Neighbor by Neighbor in Union Pier. It provides housing, utility, and food assistance to those in need. He tells us with demand expected to jump, the organization put out an appeal for donations to its Food and Hygiene Pantry last week.

“ So people reacted to that in a big way,” Murphy said. “ On Thursday, we had over 30 boxes delivered by Amazon. On Friday, it was over 40 boxes were delivered. And then we had just some other people in the community dropping off produc

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