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Lee County extension warns SNAP-Ed budget cut would shrink local nutrition education
Summary
Carla Belzer, county extension director, told the Lee County Board that federal SNAP-Ed funding was zeroed in a current federal budget proposal and that three local staff and programs reaching thousands of households could be affected if funding is not restored.
Carla Belzer, County Extension Director for the University of Illinois extension in Lee County, told the Lee County Board that the federal grant that pays for local SNAP Education programming had been zeroed in a current federal budget proposal and remained under consideration in Washington.
Belzer said the county extension relies on the federal SNAP-Ed grant to fund three full-time staff in Lee County and to run nutrition and food-access programs that reach thousands of households. “We have…
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