Trump has promised to reinstate 'partial' food stamp payouts this month. Here's where you can grab groceries in the meantime.
Bags of groceries at the May Dugan Center last week. Hundreds of thousands of Cuyahoga County residents may need to rely on area pantries this month despite the White House's promise on Monday to restore"partial" benefits.
As to when exactly those payments will hit the 42 million EBT cards, and 190,000 in Cuyahoga County, no one knows for sure. The same goes for the tug-of-war blame game for the shutdown at hand. Last Friday, in a distribution room at the May Dugan Center in Ohio City, just about every mayor, councilmember and sports team rep in a ten-mile radius convened to tell those present that they were all chipping in hundreds of thousands of dollars to help county residents on SNAP get through what’s bound to be a tough month ahead. But that money, along with the $7 million heading to Cuyahoga County from a Statehouse emergency fund, is no where near the $37 million a month the Feds typically send to EBT card holders here. Which could spell worse news by Thanksgiving with the one in eight county residents who rely on SNAP scrambling to find other ways outside government assistance to feed themselves and their familes. Mark Oprea is a staff writer at Scene. For the past seven years, he's covered Cleveland as a freelance journalist, and has contributed to TIME, NPR, the Pacific Standard and the Cleveland Magazine. He's the winner of two Press Club awards.Photos: Thousands Again Marched the Streets of Downtown Cleveland in No Kings Protest
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