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'Fund Food Stamps Now': Party for Socialism and Liberation rally at Georgia Capitol
Demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol, urging Gov. Brian Kemp to use state funds to support SNAP beneficiaries affected by the federal shutdown.
The USDA has announced that SNAP benefits will not be issued Nov. 1. How many Georgians will be affected? What to know.
Newly released internal DHS tallies show 2,207 case escalations last week alone — most flooding the state's call center — with more than a third repeat complaints amid ongoing SNAP delays.
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Georgia SNAP payments to halt; Democrats urge Kemp to use budget surplus
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On a quiet street in Mableton, fresh greens, lettuce and herbs fill every inch of Elisha Williams’ backyard garden.“I call my garden the cardboard garden urban farm, tiny but mighty,” Williams said.Despite federal judges ruling Friday that the Trump administration must continue SNAP funding during the government shutdown,
Food pantries in Georgia are bracing for impacts as benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, won’t be renewed in November.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejects calls to tap state funds to keep food assistance flowing as federal government shutdown enters its fourth week.
The stalemate in Washington could cause gnawing hunger for more than a million Georgians starting Saturday, when federal funding for low-income food subsidies, informally referred to as food stamps, runs out.
A critical food assistance program that serves roughly 1.4 million Georgians is on track to run out of funding this weekend, as the federal government shutdown approaches a full month.