“The USDA eliminated the $500 million Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program that distributed local farm-grown food to food banks and paused $500 million in funding from the Emergency Food Assistance Program which provides food to low-income households.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is appealing the LFPA cut, but advocates are bracing for the impact of lost USDA funding on the people who need it most.
‘They’re in line at the food pantry, and there’s less food to go around — all of these things are directly damaging and harmful to people who need help — and the bottom line is that those cuts are unnecessary,” said Ken Regal, executive director of the food justice nonprofit Just Harvest.'”
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