MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Thursday to transfer $150,000 for emergency food assistance .

The money from the contingency fund will go to the county's Department of Health and Human Services. They will work with local organizations to distribute healthy perishable food to homes most impacted by the Foodshare lapse.

NourishMKE operates four food pantries in Milwaukee.

They say all of the community support is needed in this moment.

"We will take what we can get to make sure we can get as much nutritious food to the hands of our community members,” said Valerie MacMillan, executive director of NourishMKE. "We've seen a real increase in the number of the people that we’re serving. We're having a lot of first-time visits. Our numbers doubled acro

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