Food banks and school districts are losing more than a billion dollars nationwide, as part of the Trump administration’s cuts to federal spending.One of the places impacted is the Stockton Food Bank. They have lost their federal food assistance funding.Those cuts are now impacting how the food bank will serve the community.Hundreds of cars line up every day in Stockton to get food, but now with federal cuts comes a lot of uncertainty.”We’re going to serve a little over 500 cars today in three hours,” Leonard Hansen, CEO of the Stockton Food Bank, said on Friday. “That pretty much repeats every day, Monday through Friday.”The loss of its federal food assistance funding comes after USDA cuts that include freezing the Emergency Food Assistance Program.Hansen said that last year, more than 70,000 people came for food. “We’re down 500 cases a week. So, if we serve 500 cases, 500 people a day in this one pantry, we’re not going to have one day’s worth of boxes. So, that’s roughly what it works out to,” Hansen said. Congressman Josh Harder is fighting to find a solution. “Many of the families who go for food at the food bank in Stockton or in other cities, they’re working full-time jobs, but they still can’t make ends meet to actually get a full, nutritious meal for their families and for their kids,” Harder said. Harder sent a letter calling for USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins to reverse these cuts and frozen funds. “I’m pushing USDA and this administration to fix these cuts, to roll them back and to make sure that every family in Stockton and San Joaquin County can get that full, nutritious meal that they need,” Harder said. Ray Call, a San Joaquin County resident, said, “Somebody’s going to go hungry because of that and it’s it’s kind of it’s just hard to think about that. […] It makes me think of a lot of hungry people and a lot of hungry children.”Hansen said private donors are helping keep the place up and running. Last year, the Stockton Food Bank recorded more than 276,000 visits to their pantry at the food bank.They also help the community with 85 mobile farmers market sites throughout San Joaquin County.In July, there will be an annual golf charity tournament supporting the food bank and its 21st run and walk against hunger on Thanksgiving morning.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
Food banks and school districts are losing more than a billion dollars nationwide, as part of the Trump administration’s cuts to federal spending.
One of the places impacted is the Stockton Food Bank. They have lost their federal food assistance funding.
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Those cuts are now impacting how the food bank will serve the community.
Hundreds of cars line up every day in Stockton to get food, but now with federal cuts comes a lot of uncertainty.
“We’re going to serve a little over 500 cars today in three hours,” Leonard Hansen, CEO of the Stockton Food Bank, said on Friday. “That pretty much repeats every day, Monday through Friday.”
The loss of its federal food assistance funding comes after USDA cuts that include freezing the Emergency Food Assistance Program.
Hansen said that last year, more than 70,000 people came for food.
“We’re down 500 cases a week. So, if we serve 500 cases, 500 people a day in this one pantry, we’re not going to have one day’s worth of boxes. So, that’s roughly what it works out to,” Hansen said.
Congressman Josh Harder is fighting to find a solution.
“Many of the families who go for food at the food bank in Stockton or in other cities, they’re working full-time jobs, but they still can’t make ends meet to actually get a full, nutritious meal for their families and for their kids,” Harder said.
Harder sent a letter calling for USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins to reverse these cuts and frozen funds.
“I’m pushing USDA and this administration to fix these cuts, to roll them back and to make sure that every family in Stockton and San Joaquin County can get that full, nutritious meal that they need,” Harder said.
Ray Call, a San Joaquin County resident, said, “Somebody’s going to go hungry because of that and it’s it’s kind of it’s just hard to think about that. […] It makes me think of a lot of hungry people and a lot of hungry children.”
Hansen said private donors are helping keep the place up and running.
Last year, the Stockton Food Bank recorded more than 276,000 visits to their pantry at the food bank.
They also help the community with 85 mobile farmers market sites throughout San Joaquin County.
In July, there will be an annual golf charity tournament supporting the food bank and its 21st run and walk against hunger on Thanksgiving morning.
See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
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