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Providence council members raise alarm over SNAP pause, urge local aid and community response
Summary
Councilors used personal expressions at the Nov. 6 meeting to call attention to a federal pause in SNAP benefits, report increased local food insecurity and ask the city and partners to step up; the city has committed $25,000 to the Rhode Island Food Bank and councilors described local food-pantries and grassroots efforts.
Several Providence City Council members used the council's personal-expression period on Nov. 6 to warn that a federal pause in SNAP benefits is producing immediate hardship and to describe local response efforts.
"This pause and this, disastrous decision by our federal government is having real life, implications, to a lot of the families in our neighborhood," Councilor Sanchez said, adding gratitude for the city…
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