‘No light at the other end’: Impending loss of pandemic CalFresh boosts could trigger hunger spike

For nearly three years, an increase in federal aid has allowed California to issue higher-than-usual amounts in food stamps. That ends in April.

— Tom McSpedden, Citrus Heights CalFresh recipient

Those proposals are “nowhere near approaching the $500 million a month that will be absent from people’s budgets, dinner tables and California retailers as well,” said Jared Call, senior advocate at the food policy organization Nourish California. “But our approach is, no tool in the toolbox should be unused.”

The state’s network of food banks continues to serve on average 1.5 times the number of clients as before the pandemic, Silva said.

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