LANE COUNTY – Communities across the country are concerned about their own health and food security, and that of their neighbors, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the nation’s most extensive food program, announced it planned to freeze Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments starting Nov. 1, saying it could no longer continue funding the program due to the government shutdown.
On Monday, Nov. 3, the Administration announced that it will provide partial funding…
