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"content": "\u003cp>A college student in Fresno who struggles with hunger has applied for food stamps three times. Another student, who is homeless in Sacramento, has applied twice. Each time, they were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 61-year-old in-home caretaker in Oakland was cut off from food stamps last year when her paperwork got lost. Out of work, she can’t afford groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While picking up a monthly box of free food, a 62-year-old senior in San Diego told outreach workers that she won’t apply for food stamps because she worries that it might prevent her from qualifying for U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe preparing lunch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, prepares lunch in a homeless shelter after an English class at Sacramento City College. Some days, she skipped lunch to save money. She recently dropped all her classes so she could focus on finding work. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All told, roughly 1.6 million Californians are not getting help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh here, even though they are eligible. That means \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-food-stamp-enrollment-rate-calfresh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28% of people\u003c/a> with poverty-level budgets didn’t receive the food assistance they needed, according to 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bookends of adulthood, college students and seniors increasingly struggle to pay their bills yet they are among the groups most likely to miss out on the food stamps they qualify for, according to interviews with more than a dozen outreach workers and state and county officials. Obstacles also face immigrants, working families and homeless people, experts said. When these categories overlap, the hurdles to obtaining food stamps are often higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University\u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> campuses\u003c/a> in 2016, just 5% of students were getting food stamps even though one in every four is eligible. For \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/research/resource-library/snap-map-snap-matters-to-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors in California\u003c/a>, just 19% get the assistance, compared with 42% of seniors nationally, according to 2015 data. And citizens who are immigrants are less likely to sign up than those who were born in the United States.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/959f427a-1571-4e5a-9290-65ae23e5533d?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh participation gaps among college students, seniors, working poor\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those living on the edge, food stamps can make a big difference: The \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Characteristics2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average CalFresh\u003c/a> household each month earns $735 and gets $272 in food stamps, which amounts to $3 per meal. A family of two qualifies with $16,920 per year after paying expenses such as housing and childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a human level, what that means is that we continue to allow Californians to go without food,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s low enrollment is not inevitable. Nine states, including neighbors Oregon and Washington, enrolled nearly every eligible person in 2016, according to federal data, while California had the \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fifth lowest rate\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/overall/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.4 million Californians\u003c/a> lack reliable access to sufficient food, including 644,300 \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/The%20State%20of%20Senior%20Hunger%20in%202017_F2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors\u003c/a> and 1,638,430 \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/child/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children\u003c/a>. In a statewide survey of college students, 35% were\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/2018-19_student_expenses_and_resources_survey_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> food insecure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each story of someone who loses out on food stamps provides a lesson for how county officials and state lawmakers could clear the roadblocks that prevent people from getting help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s like a job itself to apply”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On an empty stomach, Beverly Callupe’s brain felt hazy and slow while her English instructor reviewed possible exam questions on the memoir \u003cem>The Glass Castle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just try to write down everything and try to make sense of it after, when I’ve gotten some food,” said Callupe, 20, a Sacramento City College student. “Doing something as simple as reading just becomes so exhausting. Paying attention is really difficult. It is not the best state to go to class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunger has been a constant for Callupe since June, when she left what she describes as the abusive household of a parent and became homeless overnight. Now living in a shelter, she supplements free dinners there with the cheapest foods she can find: canned soup, pancake mix, granola bars, canned peaches. She often skips lunch, and said she goes to bed hungry “almost every single night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe eating soup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1200x822.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, eats a bowl of soup after class. Callupe knows that she should eat more but would rather save money in case she loses her housing. She was turned down for food stamps twice. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time Sacramento County denied Callupe’s CalFresh application, several months ago, she wasn’t sure why. The second time, a county worker told her that she needed to work more hours to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because federal law bars full-time students from receiving CalFresh benefits unless they meet one of several exceptions or work at least 20 hours per week — an amount that can hurt their grades and delay graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really sad and frustrated because I was really depending on that,” said Callupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, she dropped all of her courses to focus on finding a job. She is hesitant to apply for CalFresh again because she plans to enroll as a full-time student again next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students also struggle to navigate the complex rules. Ruby Sultan first learned about CalFresh in a class for her major in Food Science and Nutrition at Fresno State University. The instructor assigned the students to live for one week on just $21 worth of food — a typical food stamp budget. To Sultan, the assignment felt like an abstract exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s like my real life,” said Sultan, 26, who has since moved out of her mother’s house, become financially independent and unsuccessfully applied for CalFresh three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between odd jobs and teaching classes at three fitness studios, Sultan said she hardly has enough money to cover food and rent. But the aspiring dietitian refuses to let her budget diminish the quality of her diet, so she meticulously plans meals with fresh veggies, seeds and grains. Meanwhile, she holds off on other expenses, like textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the $25-$30 she spends on groceries each week, she relies on free rice, beans and oranges from a food pantry, and weekly hot meals at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultan frequently works over 20 hours a week but has struggled to prove it to Fresno County. The first time she was denied CalFresh, she couldn’t get pay stubs for one job in time. The second time, she hadn’t worked enough hours to qualify. The last time, in September, she was working enough hours but failed to get a boss to sign a form before time ran out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Ruby Sultan lifting weights. \" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Sultan, 26, teaches a fitness class at Fresno State’s Student Recreation Center in Fresno. \u003ccite>(Eric Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&oq=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&aqs=chrome..69i57.8118j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunger and homelessness\u003c/a> in California is widespread. In a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> at 23 California State University campuses, more than 40% of students reported food insecurity while one in ten said they experienced homelessness in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really has to do with this kind of mythology about students that comes from the history of education being reserved for elite and middle class people,” said Bartholow of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. While previous generations might have been able to rely on their parents for help with food costs, she said, many of today’s students come from families already grappling with hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have children or receive certain other forms of aid — such as Cal Grants and federal work-study jobs — are still eligible for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California campuses have stepped up their efforts to help students like Callupe and Sultan negotiate the CalFresh bureaucracy. Some hold \u003ca href=\"http://triton.news/2018/02/hundreds-students-seek-calfresh-information-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fairs\u003c/a> in which hundreds sign up en masse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County sends county workers to fairs at two area colleges — though not to Callupe’s — several times a year to help students apply on the spot, said Media Officer Janna Haynes. Fresno County has trained staff at campuses to help students apply and has clarified letters to students, said Social Service Program Manager Angela Stillwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support is there if [students] have the time to seek it,” said Stillwell. But she said there’s only so much Fresno County can do to simplify the process given federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus outreach workers say their biggest challenge is meeting the growing demand from students who want to apply but need support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fresno State added a CalFresh application link to its class registration system, interest among students skyrocketed, said Jessica Medina, who runs the school’s food security project. Nearly 400 students have applied this quarter alone, she said, compared with a total of about 200 over the previous two years. Medina estimates she’d need two to three assistants to handle the volume of questions her office receives. Right now, she has one part-time helper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> might make a dent by streamlining the student application for CalFresh. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2143/related-bills?r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two bills\u003c/a> pending in Congress would expand student eligibility for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after her third denial, Sultan said she was too discouraged to apply again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much time. It’s like a job itself to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of students sitting outside the food pantry room at UC Berkeley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit against the wall while they wait for the campus food pantry to open at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>( Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“I don’t know why they cut me off.”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not only students who struggle to navigate CalFresh. A year ago, Ruth Aquino, 61, received a letter from Alameda County saying that her CalFresh benefits had ended because she failed to turn in a report verifying that she was still eligible. But Aquino says she did submit the report, and left a voicemail to confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why they cut me off when I submitted the papers. I have the receipt,” said Aquino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had come to count on the $91 per month. Now, between jobs as an in-home caretaker after a client died, she has no income. To save money, she stopped filling prescriptions to treat her high cholesterol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, she learned that she could sign up for CalFresh in the lobby of her low-income senior apartment building in West Oakland. She decided it was time to apply again, no matter how frustrating her last experience had been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’m looking at food that I want to buy that I cannot afford,” Aquino said. With the extra grocery money, she’d be able to buy meat with less saturated fat. She daydreamed about making a big spaghetti dish with lots of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of an outreach worker from the Alameda County Community Food Bank, it took half an hour to upload Aquino’s documents — ID, rent receipt, utility bills — and answer the application’s many \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF285.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions\u003c/a>. Days later, a county worker called Aquino for a required interview. When her application was approved about a week later, she received $194, the maximum amount per month for a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To veteran CalFresh outreach workers, the phenomenon of people reapplying after they accidentally fall off is called “churn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first quarter of 2019, 23% of all new CalFresh applications statewide came from people who had received the food aid within the last 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes people churn because their income temporarily rises above the limit, but more often it’s due to paperwork problems. Often people miss the deadline for their six-month \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/SAR7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">status report\u003c/a> or annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recertification\u003c/a>, or their paperwork is deemed incomplete. It’s not uncommon that documents get lost at the county, according to outreach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sharon Johnston-Corson stands in the middle of the street with a plastic bag on her hand and a rolling bag on the other. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, leaves the River City Food Bank in Sacramento, where she reapplied for CalFresh and picked up food for herself, her husband and her teenage twins. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, of Sacramento, it took losing a job to have time to deal with CalFresh. Without a computer at home, she said she and her husband had struggled to find time outside of their full-time jobs to go to a library where they could upload required documents. A month ago their CalFresh was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Johnston-Corson’s temporary job has ended, their family — including teenage twins — is living on the $11 per hour her husband makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing being out of work is that I do have time to get to the food bank and get all of that (CalFresh) stuff done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, about 61% of eligible working poor people participated in CalFresh in 2016, compared to 75% across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incomplete applications and churn are especially common among homeless people, who often lack an address and cellphone, said Amy Dierlam, CalFresh outreach director at the River City Food Bank, a lifeline for Sacramento’s growing homeless population. Some have trouble keeping track of papers and appointments due to disability, mental illness or addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While waiting for Dierlam’s help on a recent afternoon, Antonio Chaquies, a middle-aged homeless man, railed off a list of things that have gone wrong: His CalFresh card was stolen, his benefits were cut because he didn’t turn in one of his interim reports, his backpack containing personal documents was stolen. He’d missed multiple county meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just don’t get through the hoops,” Dierlam said. Her job often feels like detective work, piecing together clients’ stories with letters from the county to figure out why their CalFresh was cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some, it’s life or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Richard Valentin standing in line to pick up food from the River City Food Bank. He places the bags of food on his walker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Valentine, 70, picks up food from the River City Food Bank in Sacramento for himself and his brother Antonio Chaquies, who struggles to hold onto CalFresh. The two brothers are homeless. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“This program is not for me anymore”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nearly two decades ago, when Evangelina Castaneda’s husband passed away, food stamps helped her family make ends meet. But now the 62-year-old San Diego resident doesn’t want to depend on governmental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have fear that I will lose my papers,” said Castaneda who is originally from Mexico, but as a lawful permanent resident for decades, is eligible for food stamps. “Now it’s a little scary because of the president…. I hear about what he says sometimes in the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda said she usually has enough to eat, and when she doesn’t, she picks up boxes from the food bank or attends meals at a local church. Of her four adult children, she said, “They don’t know I go to these places to eat food…. I’m not going to tell them, because they have their own families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda’s concern has become increasingly common among immigrant communities since early 2017, said food bank outreach workers. That’s when a version was first leaked of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776046/immigrants-afraid-of-trumps-public-charge-rule-are-dropping-food-stamps-medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Trump administration rule\u003c/a> that would make it harder for immigrants to get a green card if they were likely to use safety net benefits like food stamps or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and other states sued the Trump administration and federal courts blocked the rule on Oct. 11, days before it would it take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court battle hasn’t made a difference on the ground. Maria Lewis, a San Diego Food Bank CalFresh outreach coordinator, estimates that she talks to about 10 people each week who worry applying for CalFresh would harm their or a family member’s green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, social services providers have reported that even those, like Castaneda, who would be unaffected by the federal rule increasingly are avoiding safety net programs because of uncertainty and confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/11/college-students-seniors-and-immigrants-miss-out-on-food-stamps-heres-why/calfreshprofilesphoto5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11785994\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11785994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a man signing a document at a table with an ad that says CalFresh.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man signs up for food stamps, known as CalFresh in California, at a low-income health clinic in Contra Costa County. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fear has made it harder to get CalFresh to immigrants. But the puzzle of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility/citizen/non-citizen-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal eligibility requirements for non-citizens\u003c/a> has long been difficult for county workers to explain in English, let alone in other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among U.S. citizens who fall below the income limit for the program, the rate of immigrants who reported participating in CalFresh is 70% that of people born in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to 2018 California Health Interview Survey data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties can fight the chilling effect by ensuring that all paperwork is well-translated into locally-spoken languages, said Almas Sayeed, deputy director of California Immigrant Policy Center. She said county offices dedicated to providing immigrants with a welcoming space in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara provide a model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda also didn’t want to accept food stamps because she thought it should go to needier people, a belief common among seniors. “These programs are good but I feel that this program is not for me anymore because I’m healthy,” said Castaneda. “I don’t want to take advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited knowledge of the program and the intimidating amount of paperwork also are significant barriers for seniors, said Lorena Carranza, CalFresh outreach manager at the Sacramento Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent policy change may help educate seniors and dispel myths. Until June of this year, low-income seniors and disabled people receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) were barred from getting CalFresh. But California lawmakers voted last year to expand the program to SSI recipients, so counties and food bank mobilized \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234714092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statewide enrollment campaign\u003c/a>. As of Oct. 1, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">243,000\u003c/a> SSI recipients had enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/22910855-23f0-4f3f-a1e4-14d9a80b7939?src=embed\" title=\"California Food Insecurity\" width=\"800\" height=\"715\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons learned\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are common themes among these tales of Californians — college students, immigrants, seniors, people working long hours and those without homes — who are not getting the food they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misconceptions about who’s entitled to food stamps abound. Getting on and staying on the program requires a lot of time, diligent record-keeping and comfort navigating bureaucracy. Many need the support of food banks and non-profits to guide them through the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Fernandez, acting chief of the California Department of Social Services CalFresh branch, said increasing participation among students, working people and seniors is a priority for the state. Some progress already has been made: The state has dropped requirements for fingerprints, a test of financial assets and a lifetime ban on people with drug-related felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allowing people to apply and be approved for the program all in the same day, as Washington state has done, would greatly reduce barriers, said policy advocate Bartholow. Some California counties have moved towards this model by checking state databases rather than requiring people to track down documents, offering applications entirely over the phone and letting people do the interview on-demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the roll-out hasn’t been uniform across the state’s 58 counties, which each run the program separately. State leaders have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/09/california-food-stamp-participation-counties-challenges/?_thumbnail_id=86399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clashed\u003c/a> over how much improvement can be gained by pressuring counties to be more efficient and how much depends on the state providing more funding for workers and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high as populations who are vulnerable to hunger swell. Seniors, who are increasingly poor and immigrant, are the \u003ca href=\"https://grayingcalifornia.org/stories/data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fastest growing age group in the state\u003c/a>. More low-income students are attending California colleges than in the past. And homelessness is rising rapidly amid a housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But closing the gap between those who need food stamps and those who aren’t getting them is doable, Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as complicated as being hungry and trying to go to school, or being hungry and trying to find housing, or being hungry and trying to care for your kids, or being hungry and needing to take medication with your meals,” Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a meal with their name on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-800x415.jpg\" alt='Photo of people going through an assembly line to pick up groceries. There is a sign above the line that reads \"nutrition.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-800x415.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-160x83.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-1020x529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-1200x622.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People pick up produce, canned goods, meat, dairy and bread at the River City Food Bank in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts and Felicia Mellow are CalMatters journalists. Botts is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A college student in Fresno who struggles with hunger has applied for food stamps three times. Another student, who is homeless in Sacramento, has applied twice. Each time, they were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 61-year-old in-home caretaker in Oakland was cut off from food stamps last year when her paperwork got lost. Out of work, she can’t afford groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While picking up a monthly box of free food, a 62-year-old senior in San Diego told outreach workers that she won’t apply for food stamps because she worries that it might prevent her from qualifying for U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe preparing lunch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, prepares lunch in a homeless shelter after an English class at Sacramento City College. Some days, she skipped lunch to save money. She recently dropped all her classes so she could focus on finding work. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All told, roughly 1.6 million Californians are not getting help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh here, even though they are eligible. That means \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-food-stamp-enrollment-rate-calfresh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28% of people\u003c/a> with poverty-level budgets didn’t receive the food assistance they needed, according to 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bookends of adulthood, college students and seniors increasingly struggle to pay their bills yet they are among the groups most likely to miss out on the food stamps they qualify for, according to interviews with more than a dozen outreach workers and state and county officials. Obstacles also face immigrants, working families and homeless people, experts said. When these categories overlap, the hurdles to obtaining food stamps are often higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University\u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> campuses\u003c/a> in 2016, just 5% of students were getting food stamps even though one in every four is eligible. For \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/research/resource-library/snap-map-snap-matters-to-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors in California\u003c/a>, just 19% get the assistance, compared with 42% of seniors nationally, according to 2015 data. And citizens who are immigrants are less likely to sign up than those who were born in the United States.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/959f427a-1571-4e5a-9290-65ae23e5533d?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh participation gaps among college students, seniors, working poor\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those living on the edge, food stamps can make a big difference: The \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Characteristics2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average CalFresh\u003c/a> household each month earns $735 and gets $272 in food stamps, which amounts to $3 per meal. A family of two qualifies with $16,920 per year after paying expenses such as housing and childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a human level, what that means is that we continue to allow Californians to go without food,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s low enrollment is not inevitable. Nine states, including neighbors Oregon and Washington, enrolled nearly every eligible person in 2016, according to federal data, while California had the \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fifth lowest rate\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/overall/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.4 million Californians\u003c/a> lack reliable access to sufficient food, including 644,300 \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/The%20State%20of%20Senior%20Hunger%20in%202017_F2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors\u003c/a> and 1,638,430 \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/child/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children\u003c/a>. In a statewide survey of college students, 35% were\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/2018-19_student_expenses_and_resources_survey_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> food insecure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each story of someone who loses out on food stamps provides a lesson for how county officials and state lawmakers could clear the roadblocks that prevent people from getting help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s like a job itself to apply”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On an empty stomach, Beverly Callupe’s brain felt hazy and slow while her English instructor reviewed possible exam questions on the memoir \u003cem>The Glass Castle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just try to write down everything and try to make sense of it after, when I’ve gotten some food,” said Callupe, 20, a Sacramento City College student. “Doing something as simple as reading just becomes so exhausting. Paying attention is really difficult. It is not the best state to go to class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunger has been a constant for Callupe since June, when she left what she describes as the abusive household of a parent and became homeless overnight. Now living in a shelter, she supplements free dinners there with the cheapest foods she can find: canned soup, pancake mix, granola bars, canned peaches. She often skips lunch, and said she goes to bed hungry “almost every single night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe eating soup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1200x822.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, eats a bowl of soup after class. Callupe knows that she should eat more but would rather save money in case she loses her housing. She was turned down for food stamps twice. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time Sacramento County denied Callupe’s CalFresh application, several months ago, she wasn’t sure why. The second time, a county worker told her that she needed to work more hours to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because federal law bars full-time students from receiving CalFresh benefits unless they meet one of several exceptions or work at least 20 hours per week — an amount that can hurt their grades and delay graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really sad and frustrated because I was really depending on that,” said Callupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, she dropped all of her courses to focus on finding a job. She is hesitant to apply for CalFresh again because she plans to enroll as a full-time student again next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students also struggle to navigate the complex rules. Ruby Sultan first learned about CalFresh in a class for her major in Food Science and Nutrition at Fresno State University. The instructor assigned the students to live for one week on just $21 worth of food — a typical food stamp budget. To Sultan, the assignment felt like an abstract exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s like my real life,” said Sultan, 26, who has since moved out of her mother’s house, become financially independent and unsuccessfully applied for CalFresh three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between odd jobs and teaching classes at three fitness studios, Sultan said she hardly has enough money to cover food and rent. But the aspiring dietitian refuses to let her budget diminish the quality of her diet, so she meticulously plans meals with fresh veggies, seeds and grains. Meanwhile, she holds off on other expenses, like textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the $25-$30 she spends on groceries each week, she relies on free rice, beans and oranges from a food pantry, and weekly hot meals at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultan frequently works over 20 hours a week but has struggled to prove it to Fresno County. The first time she was denied CalFresh, she couldn’t get pay stubs for one job in time. The second time, she hadn’t worked enough hours to qualify. The last time, in September, she was working enough hours but failed to get a boss to sign a form before time ran out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Ruby Sultan lifting weights. \" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Sultan, 26, teaches a fitness class at Fresno State’s Student Recreation Center in Fresno. \u003ccite>(Eric Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&oq=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&aqs=chrome..69i57.8118j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunger and homelessness\u003c/a> in California is widespread. In a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> at 23 California State University campuses, more than 40% of students reported food insecurity while one in ten said they experienced homelessness in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really has to do with this kind of mythology about students that comes from the history of education being reserved for elite and middle class people,” said Bartholow of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. While previous generations might have been able to rely on their parents for help with food costs, she said, many of today’s students come from families already grappling with hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have children or receive certain other forms of aid — such as Cal Grants and federal work-study jobs — are still eligible for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California campuses have stepped up their efforts to help students like Callupe and Sultan negotiate the CalFresh bureaucracy. Some hold \u003ca href=\"http://triton.news/2018/02/hundreds-students-seek-calfresh-information-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fairs\u003c/a> in which hundreds sign up en masse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County sends county workers to fairs at two area colleges — though not to Callupe’s — several times a year to help students apply on the spot, said Media Officer Janna Haynes. Fresno County has trained staff at campuses to help students apply and has clarified letters to students, said Social Service Program Manager Angela Stillwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support is there if [students] have the time to seek it,” said Stillwell. But she said there’s only so much Fresno County can do to simplify the process given federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus outreach workers say their biggest challenge is meeting the growing demand from students who want to apply but need support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fresno State added a CalFresh application link to its class registration system, interest among students skyrocketed, said Jessica Medina, who runs the school’s food security project. Nearly 400 students have applied this quarter alone, she said, compared with a total of about 200 over the previous two years. Medina estimates she’d need two to three assistants to handle the volume of questions her office receives. Right now, she has one part-time helper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> might make a dent by streamlining the student application for CalFresh. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2143/related-bills?r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two bills\u003c/a> pending in Congress would expand student eligibility for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after her third denial, Sultan said she was too discouraged to apply again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much time. It’s like a job itself to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of students sitting outside the food pantry room at UC Berkeley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit against the wall while they wait for the campus food pantry to open at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>( Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“I don’t know why they cut me off.”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not only students who struggle to navigate CalFresh. A year ago, Ruth Aquino, 61, received a letter from Alameda County saying that her CalFresh benefits had ended because she failed to turn in a report verifying that she was still eligible. But Aquino says she did submit the report, and left a voicemail to confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why they cut me off when I submitted the papers. I have the receipt,” said Aquino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had come to count on the $91 per month. Now, between jobs as an in-home caretaker after a client died, she has no income. To save money, she stopped filling prescriptions to treat her high cholesterol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, she learned that she could sign up for CalFresh in the lobby of her low-income senior apartment building in West Oakland. She decided it was time to apply again, no matter how frustrating her last experience had been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’m looking at food that I want to buy that I cannot afford,” Aquino said. With the extra grocery money, she’d be able to buy meat with less saturated fat. She daydreamed about making a big spaghetti dish with lots of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of an outreach worker from the Alameda County Community Food Bank, it took half an hour to upload Aquino’s documents — ID, rent receipt, utility bills — and answer the application’s many \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF285.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions\u003c/a>. Days later, a county worker called Aquino for a required interview. When her application was approved about a week later, she received $194, the maximum amount per month for a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To veteran CalFresh outreach workers, the phenomenon of people reapplying after they accidentally fall off is called “churn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first quarter of 2019, 23% of all new CalFresh applications statewide came from people who had received the food aid within the last 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes people churn because their income temporarily rises above the limit, but more often it’s due to paperwork problems. Often people miss the deadline for their six-month \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/SAR7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">status report\u003c/a> or annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recertification\u003c/a>, or their paperwork is deemed incomplete. It’s not uncommon that documents get lost at the county, according to outreach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sharon Johnston-Corson stands in the middle of the street with a plastic bag on her hand and a rolling bag on the other. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, leaves the River City Food Bank in Sacramento, where she reapplied for CalFresh and picked up food for herself, her husband and her teenage twins. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, of Sacramento, it took losing a job to have time to deal with CalFresh. Without a computer at home, she said she and her husband had struggled to find time outside of their full-time jobs to go to a library where they could upload required documents. A month ago their CalFresh was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Johnston-Corson’s temporary job has ended, their family — including teenage twins — is living on the $11 per hour her husband makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing being out of work is that I do have time to get to the food bank and get all of that (CalFresh) stuff done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, about 61% of eligible working poor people participated in CalFresh in 2016, compared to 75% across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incomplete applications and churn are especially common among homeless people, who often lack an address and cellphone, said Amy Dierlam, CalFresh outreach director at the River City Food Bank, a lifeline for Sacramento’s growing homeless population. Some have trouble keeping track of papers and appointments due to disability, mental illness or addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While waiting for Dierlam’s help on a recent afternoon, Antonio Chaquies, a middle-aged homeless man, railed off a list of things that have gone wrong: His CalFresh card was stolen, his benefits were cut because he didn’t turn in one of his interim reports, his backpack containing personal documents was stolen. He’d missed multiple county meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just don’t get through the hoops,” Dierlam said. Her job often feels like detective work, piecing together clients’ stories with letters from the county to figure out why their CalFresh was cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some, it’s life or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Richard Valentin standing in line to pick up food from the River City Food Bank. He places the bags of food on his walker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Valentine, 70, picks up food from the River City Food Bank in Sacramento for himself and his brother Antonio Chaquies, who struggles to hold onto CalFresh. The two brothers are homeless. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“This program is not for me anymore”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nearly two decades ago, when Evangelina Castaneda’s husband passed away, food stamps helped her family make ends meet. But now the 62-year-old San Diego resident doesn’t want to depend on governmental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have fear that I will lose my papers,” said Castaneda who is originally from Mexico, but as a lawful permanent resident for decades, is eligible for food stamps. “Now it’s a little scary because of the president…. I hear about what he says sometimes in the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda said she usually has enough to eat, and when she doesn’t, she picks up boxes from the food bank or attends meals at a local church. Of her four adult children, she said, “They don’t know I go to these places to eat food…. I’m not going to tell them, because they have their own families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda’s concern has become increasingly common among immigrant communities since early 2017, said food bank outreach workers. That’s when a version was first leaked of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776046/immigrants-afraid-of-trumps-public-charge-rule-are-dropping-food-stamps-medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Trump administration rule\u003c/a> that would make it harder for immigrants to get a green card if they were likely to use safety net benefits like food stamps or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and other states sued the Trump administration and federal courts blocked the rule on Oct. 11, days before it would it take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court battle hasn’t made a difference on the ground. Maria Lewis, a San Diego Food Bank CalFresh outreach coordinator, estimates that she talks to about 10 people each week who worry applying for CalFresh would harm their or a family member’s green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, social services providers have reported that even those, like Castaneda, who would be unaffected by the federal rule increasingly are avoiding safety net programs because of uncertainty and confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/11/college-students-seniors-and-immigrants-miss-out-on-food-stamps-heres-why/calfreshprofilesphoto5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11785994\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11785994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a man signing a document at a table with an ad that says CalFresh.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man signs up for food stamps, known as CalFresh in California, at a low-income health clinic in Contra Costa County. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fear has made it harder to get CalFresh to immigrants. But the puzzle of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility/citizen/non-citizen-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal eligibility requirements for non-citizens\u003c/a> has long been difficult for county workers to explain in English, let alone in other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among U.S. citizens who fall below the income limit for the program, the rate of immigrants who reported participating in CalFresh is 70% that of people born in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to 2018 California Health Interview Survey data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties can fight the chilling effect by ensuring that all paperwork is well-translated into locally-spoken languages, said Almas Sayeed, deputy director of California Immigrant Policy Center. She said county offices dedicated to providing immigrants with a welcoming space in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara provide a model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda also didn’t want to accept food stamps because she thought it should go to needier people, a belief common among seniors. “These programs are good but I feel that this program is not for me anymore because I’m healthy,” said Castaneda. “I don’t want to take advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited knowledge of the program and the intimidating amount of paperwork also are significant barriers for seniors, said Lorena Carranza, CalFresh outreach manager at the Sacramento Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent policy change may help educate seniors and dispel myths. Until June of this year, low-income seniors and disabled people receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) were barred from getting CalFresh. But California lawmakers voted last year to expand the program to SSI recipients, so counties and food bank mobilized \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234714092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statewide enrollment campaign\u003c/a>. As of Oct. 1, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">243,000\u003c/a> SSI recipients had enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/22910855-23f0-4f3f-a1e4-14d9a80b7939?src=embed\" title=\"California Food Insecurity\" width=\"800\" height=\"715\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons learned\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are common themes among these tales of Californians — college students, immigrants, seniors, people working long hours and those without homes — who are not getting the food they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misconceptions about who’s entitled to food stamps abound. Getting on and staying on the program requires a lot of time, diligent record-keeping and comfort navigating bureaucracy. Many need the support of food banks and non-profits to guide them through the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Fernandez, acting chief of the California Department of Social Services CalFresh branch, said increasing participation among students, working people and seniors is a priority for the state. Some progress already has been made: The state has dropped requirements for fingerprints, a test of financial assets and a lifetime ban on people with drug-related felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allowing people to apply and be approved for the program all in the same day, as Washington state has done, would greatly reduce barriers, said policy advocate Bartholow. Some California counties have moved towards this model by checking state databases rather than requiring people to track down documents, offering applications entirely over the phone and letting people do the interview on-demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the roll-out hasn’t been uniform across the state’s 58 counties, which each run the program separately. State leaders have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/09/california-food-stamp-participation-counties-challenges/?_thumbnail_id=86399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clashed\u003c/a> over how much improvement can be gained by pressuring counties to be more efficient and how much depends on the state providing more funding for workers and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high as populations who are vulnerable to hunger swell. Seniors, who are increasingly poor and immigrant, are the \u003ca href=\"https://grayingcalifornia.org/stories/data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fastest growing age group in the state\u003c/a>. More low-income students are attending California colleges than in the past. And homelessness is rising rapidly amid a housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But closing the gap between those who need food stamps and those who aren’t getting them is doable, Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as complicated as being hungry and trying to go to school, or being hungry and trying to find housing, or being hungry and trying to care for your kids, or being hungry and needing to take medication with your meals,” Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a meal with their name on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-800x415.jpg\" alt='Photo of people going through an assembly line to pick up groceries. 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Would she and her family have to move back to Michoacán, which has some of the worst cartel violence in Mexico?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"public-charge\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She decided to terminate food stamps for her kids and to withdraw herself from MediCal, despite some health complications she said accompanied her latest pregnancy. She worries, she said, about how she will keep her children’s bellies full without food stamps. But she doesn’t want the use of social service programs to put her at risk of being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, the looming change, known as the “public charge” rule, is sowing confusion and fear within the immigrant community, causing many people to abandon programs for fear of retaliation from immigration authorities, according to nearly two dozen interviews with health care providers, lawyers, nonprofit organizations and social service agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule could affect more than 2 million Californians, most of whom are not subject to the regulation, and could result in 765,000 people withdrawing from MediCal and CalFresh, according to UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yuri, who did not want her last name used for fear of drawing attention to her family, would not be affected by the rule change: Refugees and asylees are\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/legal-resources/final-rule-public-charge-ground-inadmissibility\"> exempted\u003c/a> from the policy, as are the food stamps she gets for her children, who are citizens. But many immigrants like her, who are not subject to the rule, are feeling the chilling effect, with some withdrawing from social services unnecessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social service experts describe patients staying away from crucial medical appointments, domestic violence survivors avoiding food stamps, a crime victim with a humanitarian visa dropping health coverage during treatment for cancer and parents considering removing their children from benefits ranging from free and reduced school lunches to health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, green card applicants must prove they will not be a financial burden — or a “public charge” — on the United States through use of cash welfare programs or publicly funded institutional care. The new regulation, which will take effect in mid-October, would expand the public charge definition to include Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers. Immigration officials will also consider income, education, English-language abilities and health when making a determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claribel Chavez, an outreach worker for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley, said the primary reason the people she talks to resist signing up for food stamps is out of fear of being considered a public charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just not doing it because they are scared,” she said. “They say, ‘We would rather struggle than put our name into the system.’ It’s getting bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/cco/public-charge/pages/home.aspx\"> sued\u003c/a> the Trump administration over the regulation and filed a motion to block the rule before it takes effect. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/cco/public-charge/Documents/Counties_Prelimimary_Injunction_Motion.pdf\"> motion\u003c/a> argues that the rule, if implemented, would cause “irreparable harm” to the counties and “will cause individuals to dis-enroll from or forgo critical public benefits out of fear of potential immigration consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of a\u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/news/457485-washington-state-ag-files-lawsuit-over-trump-public-charge-rule\"> number\u003c/a> of states suing to block the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-17142.pdf\"> publication\u003c/a> of the rule change, the Department of Homeland Security estimated that 324,000 people in households with non-citizens will withdraw or stay away from public benefits because of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Yuri, an asylum-seeker\"]‘We don’t want to have the risk. You never know what’s going to happen.’[/pullquote]But immigrants’ rights advocates said they expect the affected pool to be much larger, because the effects are trickling down to legal immigrants and mixed-status families who, fearing negative consequences, may now withdraw or stay away from housing assistance, health care or other social services. A recent\u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/report-section/estimated-impacts-of-final-public-charge-inadmissibility-rule-on-immigrants-and-medicaid-coverage-key-findings/\"> report\u003c/a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation, for example, estimated that the rule could result in up to 4.7 million people withdrawing from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it is difficult to measure the full impacts of the policy before it takes effect, there are some indications that it may already be having an influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco County, according to court records, food stamp enrollment in households with at least one noncitizen dropped sharply when the proposed rule was announced in the fall of 2018, while citizen household enrollment remained relatively steady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, data provided in\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/cco/public-charge/Documents/Declaration_of_Director_of_DEBS_Angela_Shing.pdf\"> court records\u003c/a> indicates that the number of households receiving food stamps with at least one member who is not a citizen decreased 20% — or from about 15,000 to about 12,000 — from October 2018 to May 2019. During the same time period, food stamp enrollment in citizen households stayed at roughly 26,000. The records also show that MediCal participation in households with at least one noncitizen decreased more than 13% from the fall of 2018 to July 2019, while participation in citizen households increased 6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For health care providers in the Bay Area, the prospect of patients declining medical care is worrisome. Santa Clara County has the fourth-highest rate of tuberculosis in California, according to Dr. Sara Cody, the county’s director of public health, with almost 10% of that population infected with latent TB. Patients forgoing evaluation and treatment could heighten the risk of spreading infection to county residents, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Garcia, the chief executive officer of La Clinica, a health clinic that operates in Alameda, Solano and Contra Costa counties, said health care providers have reported patients skipping appointments and withdrawing from county health programs, as well as from MediCal. She said she gets three to four emails a day from doctors reporting appointment cancellations and no-shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg C. Garrett, the chief policy and external affairs officer of the Alameda Health Consortium, shared the story of a 13-year-old U.S. citizen with severe depression and schizophrenia whose mother withdrew her from health services because she was afraid of the public charge rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her provider told me she is having nightmares, wondering what is happening with this young girl because of her issues,” Garrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers and refugees would be exempt from the current rule, as would victims of domestic violence and trafficking. But advocates and lawyers who work with those populations say that many of them, too, are confused about the 800-plus-page rule and have asked if they should reconsider using benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, neither the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nor free and reduced price school lunch programs would be affected by the change. But social service providers in the Bay Area say recipients of both benefits have expressed concern about continuing their enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Yuri, the path forward is one without CalFresh for her children, and although she is seeking the advice of an immigration lawyer, legal consultation seems unlikely to change her mind about withdrawing. For now, she said, it all just seems too uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to have the risk,” she said, rocking her newborn’s pink crib. “You never know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erica Hellerstein is a journalist at The Mercury News in San Jose working for The California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In May 2017, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors set an ambitious goal: enroll 70,000 new families in food stamps in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11762399\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to the state’s highest \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poverty\u003c/a> rate and a growing homeless crisis, the county was enrolling just \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">69%\u003c/a> of residents who were eligible for CalFresh, the state’s name for the federal food stamps program. With full participation, the county would have been expected to gain $560 million in federal funding for its poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social services department got to work, doubling down on outreach, simplifying the application process with new technology, and producing data-driven progress reports each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, enrollment had only \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/114141.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">budged slightly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we only got 3,000 new (households). And that was a lot of work we did,” said Antonia Jiménez, director of the Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has long struggled to get food stamps to the hungry. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-food-stamp-enrollment-rate-calfresh/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state enrolled just 72% of eligible residents in CalFresh in 2016\u003c/a>, the fifth lowest rate in the nation, leaving behind about \u003ca href=\"https://cfpa.net/CalFresh/CFPAPublications/LDEP-FullReport-2019.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.8 billion in federal funding\u003c/a> earmarked for the hungry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased scrutiny on the participation gap has prompted a debate among state leaders over how much improvement can be gained by pressuring counties to be more efficient and how much will depend on more money for county eligibility workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of only 10 states that manage the food assistance program at the county level, with a wide range of application procedures, technologies and staffing levels. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, said the root of the state’s participation gap is an application process that varies from “incredibly easy” to “unnecessarily complicated and onerous,” depending on which county you live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really all over the map and short of transferring responsibility of the program to the state, which would be politically very difficult, we should at least have statewide standards in terms of streamlining the application process and improving awareness among our residents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill by Wiener would have set a goal for California to enroll 95% of eligible households by 2024, but didn’t survive a committee vote on Friday. The legislation would have required the state to oversee improvement plans and provide technical assistance to the state’s 58 counties, while counties would be required to offer applications entirely over the phone. But it included no money for eligibility workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/0d401842-3020-4e81-9f47-76fc721d444c?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh access by county\" width=\"739\" height=\"1575\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the experience in Los Angeles and other counties suggest, however, increasing efficiency alone may not be enough to achieve the state’s goal. County and state officials, including Wiener, say more state funding is needed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 2019-2020 budget to administer CalFresh was $639 million. Kimberley Johnson, the newly appointed director of the California Department of Social Services, said she will revisit the way CalFresh is funded in next year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of our huge safety net programs that we know makes a difference at disrupting poverty and that’s critical, so it’s certainly a priority of ours,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for increased funding comes even though California already spends more on administrative costs for food stamp programs than nearly every other state, according to a recent federal \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/media/file/SNAP-State-Variation-Admin-Costs-FullReport.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each California food stamp case cost $808 to administer in 2016, compared to the national average of $348. The study also found that states in which counties run the program spent 24% more per case than other states, after controlling for economic, demographic and policy differences. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Mecca, executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, said California is simply a much more expensive place to do business. “California is one of the highest cost places in the country,” he said. “Our salaries are higher, the cost of living is higher, workers get more humane benefits.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mecca also said the state estimate that each CalFresh eligibility worker should cost $58.27 per hour, including salaries, benefits and overhead costs, is out of date. The association calculates that counties currently pay about $105 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh staffing levels vary significantly by county, as do participation rates. Take Fresno and Contra Costa counties, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two counties operate their CalFresh programs in the same old-school way. The application involves three separate steps — answering lengthy questions, providing documentary evidence and participating in an interview during business hours. It takes days to weeks to complete. Neither county has a telephone-only application. And both assign interview times that may or may not conflict with applicants’ schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Fresno County enrolls about 90% of its eligible population in CalFresh, while Contra Costa enrolls less than 60%, \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to state data averaged across 2015 through 2017\u003c/a>. With full participation, Contra Costa County would have been expected to receive an additional $67 million in federal funds for hungry residents in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/88e8b621-0e6a-4530-983c-c1485995ff68?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh participation rates in 2017\" width=\"550\" height=\"1057\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffing data from the two counties indicates that Fresno has about 1.6 CalFresh workers per 1,000 people eligible compared to just under 1 per 1,000 in Contra Costa, based on state estimates of the eligible populations in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mecca cautioned that the state’s participation rate data are imperfect and don’t reflect gains made by counties over the last two years. Kathy Gallagher, director of the Contra Costa Employment and Human Services Department, also warned that comparing staffing levels is misleading because the two counties have different business models and client needs. But she acknowledged Contra Costa’s program is understaffed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Gallagher said the county had more than 100 CalFresh interviews scheduled out more than a month, out of compliance with the state’s requirement that eligibility be determined within 30 days of an application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County resident Eduardo Mendoza, 66, applied for CalFresh in mid-July, but his interview was scheduled for mid-October. Until then, Mendoza said he would continue getting daily free meals at a local soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m patient, you know,” Mendoza said. “I know I’ll survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza became eligible for CalFresh in June after state lawmakers voted to make the program available to recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), an assistance program for the elderly and disabled. The expansion made 500,000 more people eligible for the program statewide and overwhelmed Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, advocates have implored the county to upgrade technology, increase outreach, and above all, hire more staff. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.cc-courts.org/civil/docs/grandjury/Rpt%201502_Signed_CalFresh.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2015 grand jury report\u003c/a> on the county’s underutilization of CalFresh recommended the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties pay 15% of administrative costs for CalFresh while the state pays 35% and the federal government pays the rest. Each county’s budget is also based on last year’s CalFresh enrollment rather than the total number of eligible people in a county, leaving struggling counties with limited resources to close the gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher said, unlike Contra Costa, other Bay Area counties set aside additional money to support CalFresh to keep up with the high costs of the area. Meanwhile, Contra Costa, struggling with tight budgets and a hiring freeze, didn’t pay its full 15% share of administrative costs in several recent years, reducing the amount of federal and state matching funds it received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Contra Costa is in the position of many other counties that don’t have local revenue measures that supplement their property tax,” John Gioia, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, said. “Contra Costa County relies on state funding ... but the state funding is really not sufficient to do the best job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Ambriz, an outreach worker for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, helps a man sign up for CalFresh in a Pittsburg health clinic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771904\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Ambriz, an outreach worker for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, helps a man sign up for CalFresh in a Pittsburg health clinic. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, county supervisors hoped to add 70,000 new households over two years by increasing efficiency without adding more money. If it had been successful, the Los Angeles participation rate might have grown from 69% to 80% and the county’s poor would have been expected to gain an additional $201 million in federal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez speaks proudly of the changes she made. The department mailed people on Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance for low-income residents, an estimate of their CalFresh benefit if they applied. It targeted outreach to students. It rolled out a new one-and-done call center which allows some people to finish the entire application in a single phone call. It also began texting reminders to people to submit their semi-annual recertification reports. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county processed 899,000 CalFresh applications over the two years, but nearly as many families dropped off. One lesson learned: “It wasn’t really getting people in the door that was the problem, the problem was keeping them in the system,” Jiménez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite adding just 3,000 additional households, county officials say the program was a partial success. One reason is that the number of eligible households dropped statewide during the period because of the strong economy. Had the county kept pace with the state’s enrollment decline, over 40,000 households might have unenrolled over the two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, officials say the specter of a Trump administration proposal that would jeopardize green cards for legal immigrants deemed likely to use public assistance caused immigrant families to \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/public-charge-rule-looming-one-seven-adults-immigrant-families-reported-avoiding-public-benefit-programs-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opt out of public benefits\u003c/a>. They expect that chilling effect will grow after the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/immigration/2019/08/what-trump-public-charge-immigration-green-card-crackdown-means-for-california/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration announced the final so-called “public charge”\u003c/a> rule in August (California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed suit\u003c/a> against the government days later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would it have taken to hit Wiener’s goal of a 95% participation rate? Way more staff, Jiménez said. “But you know, to be honest, I don’t believe in arbitrary goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Fresno, with its high participation rate, Department of Social Services Deputy Director Linda Du’Chene said her CalFresh program is “grossly underfunded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about the clients,” Du’Chene said. “More funding means more workers; more workers means more efficiency in our ability to process applications” on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Du’Chene said a key to Fresno’s high participation rate is the county’s partnership with more than 50 community organizations that help reach eligible people. Contra Costa and Los Angeles officials said they’ve had less success with outreach through nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"Jerrene Richardson, a college student, began her CalFresh application at the West Fresno Family Resource Center’s annual back to school event in August. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771906\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerrene Richardson, a college student, began her CalFresh application at the West Fresno Family Resource Center’s annual back to school event in August. \u003ccite>(Photo via Jerrene Richardson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The West Fresno Family Resource Center, a community group that helped more than 700 families sign up for CalFresh in 2018, drew over 200 families to its 17th annual back to school event in early August. Organizers kept track of attendee data like primary language spoken, ethnicity and participation or eligibility in CalFresh. Over 100 families showed a need, according to Executive Director Yolanda Randles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite what folks are saying about the economy being great, there are families still suffering,” Randles said. “To be able to go to the grocery store and purchase food, I can’t tell you the impact that has on families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerrene Richardson, a 20-year-old college student, began her application at the event. Unemployed and living alone, Richardson said she hoped CalFresh could help her move a step closer to being independent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really want to be able to get my own food without any trouble,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/california-divide/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we only got 3,000 new (households). And that was a lot of work we did,” said Antonia Jiménez, director of the Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has long struggled to get food stamps to the hungry. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-food-stamp-enrollment-rate-calfresh/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state enrolled just 72% of eligible residents in CalFresh in 2016\u003c/a>, the fifth lowest rate in the nation, leaving behind about \u003ca href=\"https://cfpa.net/CalFresh/CFPAPublications/LDEP-FullReport-2019.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.8 billion in federal funding\u003c/a> earmarked for the hungry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased scrutiny on the participation gap has prompted a debate among state leaders over how much improvement can be gained by pressuring counties to be more efficient and how much will depend on more money for county eligibility workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of only 10 states that manage the food assistance program at the county level, with a wide range of application procedures, technologies and staffing levels. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, said the root of the state’s participation gap is an application process that varies from “incredibly easy” to “unnecessarily complicated and onerous,” depending on which county you live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really all over the map and short of transferring responsibility of the program to the state, which would be politically very difficult, we should at least have statewide standards in terms of streamlining the application process and improving awareness among our residents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill by Wiener would have set a goal for California to enroll 95% of eligible households by 2024, but didn’t survive a committee vote on Friday. The legislation would have required the state to oversee improvement plans and provide technical assistance to the state’s 58 counties, while counties would be required to offer applications entirely over the phone. But it included no money for eligibility workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/0d401842-3020-4e81-9f47-76fc721d444c?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh access by county\" width=\"739\" height=\"1575\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the experience in Los Angeles and other counties suggest, however, increasing efficiency alone may not be enough to achieve the state’s goal. County and state officials, including Wiener, say more state funding is needed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 2019-2020 budget to administer CalFresh was $639 million. Kimberley Johnson, the newly appointed director of the California Department of Social Services, said she will revisit the way CalFresh is funded in next year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of our huge safety net programs that we know makes a difference at disrupting poverty and that’s critical, so it’s certainly a priority of ours,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for increased funding comes even though California already spends more on administrative costs for food stamp programs than nearly every other state, according to a recent federal \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/media/file/SNAP-State-Variation-Admin-Costs-FullReport.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each California food stamp case cost $808 to administer in 2016, compared to the national average of $348. The study also found that states in which counties run the program spent 24% more per case than other states, after controlling for economic, demographic and policy differences. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Mecca, executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, said California is simply a much more expensive place to do business. “California is one of the highest cost places in the country,” he said. “Our salaries are higher, the cost of living is higher, workers get more humane benefits.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mecca also said the state estimate that each CalFresh eligibility worker should cost $58.27 per hour, including salaries, benefits and overhead costs, is out of date. The association calculates that counties currently pay about $105 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh staffing levels vary significantly by county, as do participation rates. Take Fresno and Contra Costa counties, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two counties operate their CalFresh programs in the same old-school way. The application involves three separate steps — answering lengthy questions, providing documentary evidence and participating in an interview during business hours. It takes days to weeks to complete. Neither county has a telephone-only application. And both assign interview times that may or may not conflict with applicants’ schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Fresno County enrolls about 90% of its eligible population in CalFresh, while Contra Costa enrolls less than 60%, \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to state data averaged across 2015 through 2017\u003c/a>. With full participation, Contra Costa County would have been expected to receive an additional $67 million in federal funds for hungry residents in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/88e8b621-0e6a-4530-983c-c1485995ff68?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh participation rates in 2017\" width=\"550\" height=\"1057\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffing data from the two counties indicates that Fresno has about 1.6 CalFresh workers per 1,000 people eligible compared to just under 1 per 1,000 in Contra Costa, based on state estimates of the eligible populations in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mecca cautioned that the state’s participation rate data are imperfect and don’t reflect gains made by counties over the last two years. Kathy Gallagher, director of the Contra Costa Employment and Human Services Department, also warned that comparing staffing levels is misleading because the two counties have different business models and client needs. But she acknowledged Contra Costa’s program is understaffed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Gallagher said the county had more than 100 CalFresh interviews scheduled out more than a month, out of compliance with the state’s requirement that eligibility be determined within 30 days of an application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County resident Eduardo Mendoza, 66, applied for CalFresh in mid-July, but his interview was scheduled for mid-October. Until then, Mendoza said he would continue getting daily free meals at a local soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m patient, you know,” Mendoza said. “I know I’ll survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza became eligible for CalFresh in June after state lawmakers voted to make the program available to recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), an assistance program for the elderly and disabled. The expansion made 500,000 more people eligible for the program statewide and overwhelmed Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, advocates have implored the county to upgrade technology, increase outreach, and above all, hire more staff. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.cc-courts.org/civil/docs/grandjury/Rpt%201502_Signed_CalFresh.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2015 grand jury report\u003c/a> on the county’s underutilization of CalFresh recommended the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties pay 15% of administrative costs for CalFresh while the state pays 35% and the federal government pays the rest. Each county’s budget is also based on last year’s CalFresh enrollment rather than the total number of eligible people in a county, leaving struggling counties with limited resources to close the gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher said, unlike Contra Costa, other Bay Area counties set aside additional money to support CalFresh to keep up with the high costs of the area. Meanwhile, Contra Costa, struggling with tight budgets and a hiring freeze, didn’t pay its full 15% share of administrative costs in several recent years, reducing the amount of federal and state matching funds it received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Contra Costa is in the position of many other counties that don’t have local revenue measures that supplement their property tax,” John Gioia, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, said. “Contra Costa County relies on state funding ... but the state funding is really not sufficient to do the best job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Ambriz, an outreach worker for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, helps a man sign up for CalFresh in a Pittsburg health clinic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771904\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/food-stamps-photo-1-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Ambriz, an outreach worker for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, helps a man sign up for CalFresh in a Pittsburg health clinic. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, county supervisors hoped to add 70,000 new households over two years by increasing efficiency without adding more money. If it had been successful, the Los Angeles participation rate might have grown from 69% to 80% and the county’s poor would have been expected to gain an additional $201 million in federal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez speaks proudly of the changes she made. The department mailed people on Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance for low-income residents, an estimate of their CalFresh benefit if they applied. It targeted outreach to students. It rolled out a new one-and-done call center which allows some people to finish the entire application in a single phone call. It also began texting reminders to people to submit their semi-annual recertification reports. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county processed 899,000 CalFresh applications over the two years, but nearly as many families dropped off. One lesson learned: “It wasn’t really getting people in the door that was the problem, the problem was keeping them in the system,” Jiménez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite adding just 3,000 additional households, county officials say the program was a partial success. One reason is that the number of eligible households dropped statewide during the period because of the strong economy. Had the county kept pace with the state’s enrollment decline, over 40,000 households might have unenrolled over the two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, officials say the specter of a Trump administration proposal that would jeopardize green cards for legal immigrants deemed likely to use public assistance caused immigrant families to \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/public-charge-rule-looming-one-seven-adults-immigrant-families-reported-avoiding-public-benefit-programs-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opt out of public benefits\u003c/a>. They expect that chilling effect will grow after the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/immigration/2019/08/what-trump-public-charge-immigration-green-card-crackdown-means-for-california/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration announced the final so-called “public charge”\u003c/a> rule in August (California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed suit\u003c/a> against the government days later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would it have taken to hit Wiener’s goal of a 95% participation rate? Way more staff, Jiménez said. “But you know, to be honest, I don’t believe in arbitrary goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Fresno, with its high participation rate, Department of Social Services Deputy Director Linda Du’Chene said her CalFresh program is “grossly underfunded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about the clients,” Du’Chene said. “More funding means more workers; more workers means more efficiency in our ability to process applications” on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Du’Chene said a key to Fresno’s high participation rate is the county’s partnership with more than 50 community organizations that help reach eligible people. Contra Costa and Los Angeles officials said they’ve had less success with outreach through nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"Jerrene Richardson, a college student, began her CalFresh application at the West Fresno Family Resource Center’s annual back to school event in August. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771906\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Jerrene-Richardson_Fresno_CalFresh.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerrene Richardson, a college student, began her CalFresh application at the West Fresno Family Resource Center’s annual back to school event in August. \u003ccite>(Photo via Jerrene Richardson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The West Fresno Family Resource Center, a community group that helped more than 700 families sign up for CalFresh in 2018, drew over 200 families to its 17th annual back to school event in early August. Organizers kept track of attendee data like primary language spoken, ethnicity and participation or eligibility in CalFresh. Over 100 families showed a need, according to Executive Director Yolanda Randles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite what folks are saying about the economy being great, there are families still suffering,” Randles said. “To be able to go to the grocery store and purchase food, I can’t tell you the impact that has on families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerrene Richardson, a 20-year-old college student, began her application at the event. Unemployed and living alone, Richardson said she hoped CalFresh could help her move a step closer to being independent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really want to be able to get my own food without any trouble,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/california-divide/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Antoinette Martinez rolls her cart through the produce section of the FoodMaxx in Watsonville, her 5-year-old son, Caden, often asks for strawberries and blueberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Martinez bends, but usually she sticks to the produce on sale: Roma tomatoes for 69 cents a pound, cucumbers at three-for-99 cents. And banana bunches are relatively cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not under a dollar, then I don’t buy it,” Martinez said, bypassing $2 lettuce as Caden clambered into her grocery cart. “It’s about stretching the dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food budget isn’t as tight as it used to be since Martinez, a single mother, got a job at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Santa Cruz County. She helps people sign up for food stamps, known in California as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between her $2,380 monthly paycheck and about $100 she receives in CalFresh, Martinez can make it through the month without her or Caden ever going hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty']'There’s actually no evidence that making someone hungrier makes them less dependent on public benefits. And there’s plenty of evidence showing the opposite.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/07/23/usda-proposes-close-snap-automatic-eligibility-loophole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new proposal from the Trump administration\u003c/a>, Martinez and her son would lose their food stamps. So would many clients she helps at the food bank, along with an estimated 3.1 million Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians are likely to be hit particularly hard. Here’s why:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule, announced last week, would undo the ability of states to provide food stamps to households that have incomes above the federal food stamp limit — 130% of the federal poverty line — but hefty expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have the biggest impact in states like California that have raised the minimum wage to try to chase the skyrocketing costs of housing. As California’s minimum wage creeps toward $15 per hour by 2023, many more workers could be bumped off food stamps when their monthly incomes rise above the federal limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current law, a California family of two with a gross monthly income between 130% and 200% of the federal poverty level — or between $1,784 and $2,744 — can qualify to receive CalFresh as long as their net income after housing, child care or medical costs falls under 100% of the poverty level, or $1,372.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Martinez falls right into that bracket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule would also cut the benefit for families who have savings or assets above a federal limit that many states, including California, currently waive. That limit — $2,250 for most families — is only slightly over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/california-rent-report-rentonomics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a two-bedroom apartment in California ($2,110) and about half that of a two-bedroom in San Francisco ($4,730).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that states like California are a target on this,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwj566-t9d_jAhXUJzQIHSkyCP8QFjAAegQIBRAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwclp.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw0WrfpyNihAEfYYUe7C7r-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11764606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Martinez uses CalFresh to pay for her groceries at FoodMaxx on July 26, 2019. The food she purchases today is expected to last her and her 5-year-old for at least a week. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said that the proposal to eliminate what he called a “loophole” would reduce fraud and save the federal government money — more than $9 billion over the next five years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/24/2019-15670/revision-of-categorical-eligibility-in-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a federal estimate\u003c/a>. The proposal could go into effect following a 60-day public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to make sure folks have the tools they need to move away from (food stamp) dependency… and preserve the benefits for those most in need,” Perdue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates counter that the move would largely cut benefits for working families who spend large chunks of their paychecks on housing and caretaking costs for young children or ill or disabled family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s actually no evidence that making someone hungrier makes them less dependent on public benefits. And there’s plenty of evidence showing the opposite,” said Bartholow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"food-stamps\" label=\"More coverage of public benefits\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Center estimates that some 250,000 Californians could lose CalFresh, based on estimates made when California expanded eligibility in 2008 under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and again in 2013 under Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, children in those families could lose automatic eligibility for free lunches at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to cut food stamps is the latest in a series of Trump administration initiatives to curtail government benefits for low-income people, including a rule that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/01/707681965/more-than-750-000-could-lose-food-stamps-under-trump-administration-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tighten food stamp work requirements\u003c/a>, another to block some legal immigrants from getting a green card if they are\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/12/california-ag-labels-public-charge-unconstitutional-immigration-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> deemed likely to use public services\u003c/a>, and another to adjust the way the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2019/06/a-vaccine-show-down-a-tax-bill-wildfire-costs-and-poverty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal poverty measure is calculated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those other proposed rules have cleared their comment periods, but the Trump administration has yet to impose them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition from California’s Democratic leaders to the latest proposal was swift and predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a state in the country that is probably more aggressive in pushing back from a litigation perspective, so that will be analyzed by the lawyers,” Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/newsompgeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CalMatters\u003c/a>. A spokesman for Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/04/california-sues-trump-more-becerra-lawsuit-tracker-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued the Trump administration over 50 times\u003c/a> thus far, said his office was reviewing the proposal. (CalMatters is tracking those lawsuits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>California, a state with the nation’s highest poverty rate, consistently ranks near the bottom when it comes to enrolling low-income people in CalFresh, the state’s name for the federal food stamp program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That translates to a lot of federal money that California forsakes each year. Low-income Californians would have received an additional $1.8 billion in 2016 in federal funding if CalFresh reached every eligible person, \u003ca href=\"https://cfpa.net/CalFresh/CFPAPublications/LDEP-FullReport-2019.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimates\u003c/a> California Food Policy Advocates, a nonprofit that promotes greater access to food for low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous that so many Californians struggle to put food on the table,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat. “We’re leaving money on the table and people aren’t getting the food that they need. It’s time to kick into gear, streamline the system, get people signed up and stop with the excuses.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 72% of eligible Californians were enrolled in CalFresh — the fourth lowest rate in the nation — in 2016, the last year for which national \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Reaching2016.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a> is available. A bill by Wiener, currently winding through the Assembly, would require the state to enroll 95% of eligible households by 2024, with no county enrolling fewer than 85%. It also requires the state to develop a new metric to better track who’s getting CalFresh at a local level and who’s not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve sat with folks who shared tearful hugs at the realization that they would have $200 extra in their budget for food and I’ve also sat with people so frustrated with the process that they gave up entirely,” Francesca Costa, who does CalFresh outreach at a nonprofit in San Francisco, said at an April legislative hearing. “This is a loss not just for them, but for their families, for California’s economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh is fully funded by the federal government and generally available to households earning less than 200% of the federal poverty level before taxes, which is about $4,184 per month for a family of four. The program reached 3.9 million Californians in 2018, but roughly 1.5 million missed out on the monthly payments, which average $270 per household. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine states, including coastal neighbors Oregon and Washington, enroll nearly every eligible person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/1b886097-439f-4211-a8ce-1b27e7104689?src=embed\" title=\"calfresh_funding\" width=\"532\" height=\"814\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>That California trails far behind the rest of the country has long vexed state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has steadily improved the program’s reach in recent years, up from a dismal 51% participation rate in 2010. That’s due in part to lawmakers’ attempts to streamline the application process, dropping a requirement for fingerprints, a test of financial assets and a lifetime ban on people with drug-related felony offenses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also launched a partnership five years ago with Code For America, a nonprofit that works to modernize government services, to create a user-friendly online application called \u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GetCalFresh.org\u003c/a>. Small tinkering made a big difference, like making the website mobile-friendly, breaking up hard-to-calculate questions about income into \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/code-for-america/overcoming-barriers-finding-better-ways-to-ask-getcalfresh-applicants-about-income-ef45f0d5bdad\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple steps\u003c/a> and allowing people to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/code-for-america/overcoming-barriers-how-getcalfresh-helps-applicants-submit-verifications-f2082823f64f\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upload\u003c/a> documents on smartphones. All told, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/getcalfresh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1 million\u003c/a> people have used the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been making pretty good progress in increasing participation over time,” said Alexis Fernandez, acting chief of the California Department of Social Services CalFresh branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reaching Wiener’s goal of getting CalFresh to nearly all eligible households will require California to reckon with an arduous application that leads many to give up or not try at all. Unlike most other states, California’s program is administered at the county level, creating a variety of application processes statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties would have to do a lot more to catch up than others. Contra Costa County got CalFresh in the hands of just about half of eligible people in 2017, compared to nearly full enrollment in Fresno County, according to \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/e2a6f736-b504-4e66-9544-a9e09345a043?src=embed\" title=\"calfresh_participation_trend\" width=\"550\" height=\"659\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“When you have a legacy of barriers and 58 counties administering CalFresh in different ways, you have to actually proactively remove barriers,” said Tracey Patterson, of California Food Policy Advocates, a sponsor of the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eligibility calculation is complex and exceptions abound, so applicants must answer \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF285.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of questions\u003c/a>, provide supporting documents and attend a mandatory interview always during working hours. A missed phone interview is a principal reason people give up on CalFresh, according to Code For America. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s bill also requires counties to allow people to apply entirely over the phone, including providing a signature, rather than having to visit a welfare office or mail in paperwork. Currently only 19 counties offer this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t have a DMV situation in terms of how you apply to CalFresh,” Wiener said, referring to long lines and in-person processes at the Department of Motor Vehicles. “You shouldn’t have to go into the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson hopes that by creating better metrics the bill will realign counties’ incentives to improve participation, evoking the adage that “what gets measured gets done.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At present, counties can only be penalized for giving people too much benefit, which could lead some county workers to require extra documentation from applicants to prove their eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re looking at what counties are evaluated on in terms of their oversight from the state, it is their error rate and their timeliness rate,” Patterson said. “That can run in somewhat of a disincentive to a culture of eligibility, where you’re trying to figure out how to make sure that you get everyone possible through the process and get it right the first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley resident Alex McNall uses CalFresh tokens to purchase vegetables at the Ecology Center farmers' market in downtown Berkeley on July 13, 2019. CalFresh participants can purchase tokens at the market using their benefits card and can receive up to $10 in additional tokens specifically for fruits and vegetables. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/Calmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pending legislation lacks any funding for counties to improve their application process or increase outreach, causing some local officials to raise concerns about how they could achieve the new goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely need more state and federal funding, because we’d have to add staff,” said Kathy Gallagher, director of the social services department in Contra Costa County, home to a hard-to-reach senior population. Currently, only one in five eligible seniors in California receive CalFresh \u003ca href=\"http://www.frac.org/maps/seniors/senior-snap-rates.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">compared\u003c/a> to the national average of 42%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates counter that there’s plenty of low-hanging fruit that will cost little to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fernandez, of the state’s CalFresh branch, said: “I hesitate to call them low-hanging fruit. If they were low hanging, we would have done them. These are really complex issues. Locally things look different across California depending on communities where our participants are living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties with large populations of working poor, unhoused people and immigrants face unique challenges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, immigrants living in the U.S. legally can be eligible but many worry that receiving CalFresh will hinder the chances that they or family members get citizenship, particularly in light of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/12/california-ag-labels-public-charge-unconstitutional-immigration-change/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed rule\u003c/a> from the Trump administration that would block some legal immigrants from getting a green card if they use — or are deemed likely to use — public services like health care, food assistance and housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, Wiener is optimistic about the goals in his legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s too ambitious. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California, a state with the nation’s highest poverty rate, consistently ranks near the bottom when it comes to enrolling low-income people in CalFresh, the state’s name for the federal food stamp program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That translates to a lot of federal money that California forsakes each year. Low-income Californians would have received an additional $1.8 billion in 2016 in federal funding if CalFresh reached every eligible person, \u003ca href=\"https://cfpa.net/CalFresh/CFPAPublications/LDEP-FullReport-2019.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimates\u003c/a> California Food Policy Advocates, a nonprofit that promotes greater access to food for low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous that so many Californians struggle to put food on the table,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat. “We’re leaving money on the table and people aren’t getting the food that they need. It’s time to kick into gear, streamline the system, get people signed up and stop with the excuses.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 72% of eligible Californians were enrolled in CalFresh — the fourth lowest rate in the nation — in 2016, the last year for which national \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Reaching2016.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a> is available. A bill by Wiener, currently winding through the Assembly, would require the state to enroll 95% of eligible households by 2024, with no county enrolling fewer than 85%. It also requires the state to develop a new metric to better track who’s getting CalFresh at a local level and who’s not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve sat with folks who shared tearful hugs at the realization that they would have $200 extra in their budget for food and I’ve also sat with people so frustrated with the process that they gave up entirely,” Francesca Costa, who does CalFresh outreach at a nonprofit in San Francisco, said at an April legislative hearing. “This is a loss not just for them, but for their families, for California’s economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh is fully funded by the federal government and generally available to households earning less than 200% of the federal poverty level before taxes, which is about $4,184 per month for a family of four. The program reached 3.9 million Californians in 2018, but roughly 1.5 million missed out on the monthly payments, which average $270 per household. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine states, including coastal neighbors Oregon and Washington, enroll nearly every eligible person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/1b886097-439f-4211-a8ce-1b27e7104689?src=embed\" title=\"calfresh_funding\" width=\"532\" height=\"814\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>That California trails far behind the rest of the country has long vexed state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has steadily improved the program’s reach in recent years, up from a dismal 51% participation rate in 2010. That’s due in part to lawmakers’ attempts to streamline the application process, dropping a requirement for fingerprints, a test of financial assets and a lifetime ban on people with drug-related felony offenses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also launched a partnership five years ago with Code For America, a nonprofit that works to modernize government services, to create a user-friendly online application called \u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GetCalFresh.org\u003c/a>. Small tinkering made a big difference, like making the website mobile-friendly, breaking up hard-to-calculate questions about income into \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/code-for-america/overcoming-barriers-finding-better-ways-to-ask-getcalfresh-applicants-about-income-ef45f0d5bdad\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple steps\u003c/a> and allowing people to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/code-for-america/overcoming-barriers-how-getcalfresh-helps-applicants-submit-verifications-f2082823f64f\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upload\u003c/a> documents on smartphones. All told, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/getcalfresh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1 million\u003c/a> people have used the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been making pretty good progress in increasing participation over time,” said Alexis Fernandez, acting chief of the California Department of Social Services CalFresh branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reaching Wiener’s goal of getting CalFresh to nearly all eligible households will require California to reckon with an arduous application that leads many to give up or not try at all. Unlike most other states, California’s program is administered at the county level, creating a variety of application processes statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties would have to do a lot more to catch up than others. Contra Costa County got CalFresh in the hands of just about half of eligible people in 2017, compared to nearly full enrollment in Fresno County, according to \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/e2a6f736-b504-4e66-9544-a9e09345a043?src=embed\" title=\"calfresh_participation_trend\" width=\"550\" height=\"659\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“When you have a legacy of barriers and 58 counties administering CalFresh in different ways, you have to actually proactively remove barriers,” said Tracey Patterson, of California Food Policy Advocates, a sponsor of the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eligibility calculation is complex and exceptions abound, so applicants must answer \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF285.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of questions\u003c/a>, provide supporting documents and attend a mandatory interview always during working hours. A missed phone interview is a principal reason people give up on CalFresh, according to Code For America. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s bill also requires counties to allow people to apply entirely over the phone, including providing a signature, rather than having to visit a welfare office or mail in paperwork. Currently only 19 counties offer this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t have a DMV situation in terms of how you apply to CalFresh,” Wiener said, referring to long lines and in-person processes at the Department of Motor Vehicles. “You shouldn’t have to go into the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson hopes that by creating better metrics the bill will realign counties’ incentives to improve participation, evoking the adage that “what gets measured gets done.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At present, counties can only be penalized for giving people too much benefit, which could lead some county workers to require extra documentation from applicants to prove their eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re looking at what counties are evaluated on in terms of their oversight from the state, it is their error rate and their timeliness rate,” Patterson said. “That can run in somewhat of a disincentive to a culture of eligibility, where you’re trying to figure out how to make sure that you get everyone possible through the process and get it right the first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07132019_CalFresh_AW_sized_06.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley resident Alex McNall uses CalFresh tokens to purchase vegetables at the Ecology Center farmers' market in downtown Berkeley on July 13, 2019. CalFresh participants can purchase tokens at the market using their benefits card and can receive up to $10 in additional tokens specifically for fruits and vegetables. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/Calmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pending legislation lacks any funding for counties to improve their application process or increase outreach, causing some local officials to raise concerns about how they could achieve the new goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely need more state and federal funding, because we’d have to add staff,” said Kathy Gallagher, director of the social services department in Contra Costa County, home to a hard-to-reach senior population. Currently, only one in five eligible seniors in California receive CalFresh \u003ca href=\"http://www.frac.org/maps/seniors/senior-snap-rates.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">compared\u003c/a> to the national average of 42%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates counter that there’s plenty of low-hanging fruit that will cost little to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fernandez, of the state’s CalFresh branch, said: “I hesitate to call them low-hanging fruit. If they were low hanging, we would have done them. These are really complex issues. Locally things look different across California depending on communities where our participants are living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties with large populations of working poor, unhoused people and immigrants face unique challenges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, immigrants living in the U.S. legally can be eligible but many worry that receiving CalFresh will hinder the chances that they or family members get citizenship, particularly in light of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/12/california-ag-labels-public-charge-unconstitutional-immigration-change/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed rule\u003c/a> from the Trump administration that would block some legal immigrants from getting a green card if they use — or are deemed likely to use — public services like health care, food assistance and housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, Wiener is optimistic about the goals in his legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s too ambitious. 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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives voted down the so-called farm bill Friday on a \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll205.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">213-198 vote\u003c/a>. The bill’s failure proved a high-stakes embarrassment to GOP leadership, which spent days attempting to wrangle enough votes for the massive piece of legislation setting agriculture and food policy, with a price tag of $857 billion over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, all Democrats voted against the measure. They were also joined by 30 Republicans, many of them members of the House Freedom Caucus, who voted “no” after failing to get concessions on spending and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/conservative-bill-immigration-daca-negotiations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future vote on immigration\u003c/a> in exchange for their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the big picture, the farm bill would have continued subsidies for farmers. But a key sticking point in the measure, particularly for Democrats, was proposed changes to food stamps — officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — which helps \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 million Americans, \u003c/a>including one in 10 Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi characterized the bill as “cruel” and “destructive,” and summed up her party’s stiff opposition just two hours before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/997488952369143808\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 \u003c/a>proposed to shift billions of dollars to employment and training programs, while substantially increasing the number of people who would need to prove they are working or enrolled in job training to get the monthly nutrition benefits, which average $126 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opponents argued the changes would lead to more low-income Americans going hungry, supporters said they would help move people out of poverty and strengthen the country’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food stamps should be for the neediest in our community,” said \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a> (R-Turlock), a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a>, who voted for the farm bill in committee last month. “If you’re able-bodied and you are work-capable, we want to make sure you find a job and you get the training that you need to lift yourself out of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, adults ages 18 to 49 who don’t have dependents or disabilities must prove they are working or in job training at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits for more than three months. The bill would have substantially expanded the requirement to include adults up to age 59 and parents with children older than age 5. Recipients would have had to show they were meeting the new rules on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham represents a portion of the Central Valley, a region where SNAP, called\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CalFresh\u003c/a> in California, helps reduce more poverty than elsewhere in the state, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/calfresh-cuts-poverty-congressional-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> by the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham acknowledged the potential difficulty for low-income Californians who are already struggling to get by. But he said his own family was able to get off the food aid when he was growing up to achieve greater financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when my parents were on food stamps it was a challenging situation where my mom needed to go back out and get new training to be able to get a new job,” Denham said. “It’s very difficult, I get it. But I also understand that you are able to improve your life by working and actually having a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending on SNAP and other nutrition programs makes up the largest portion of the farm bill’s cost, about 76 percent. Last year, the federal government spent $68 billion on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the failed bill, about 1.2 million people would have stopped receiving SNAP benefits as a result of the tighter work requirements in 2028, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/6-takeaways-from-cbo-estimate-of-house-agriculture-committee-snap-proposals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The majority of them would have been parents with older kids — although children receiving the benefit would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food banks, that spelled bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any cuts to SNAP guarantee that we will see an increase of individuals, families in our food pantry lines. And we are not prepared to meet that need,” said Natalie Caples, chief operations officer at\u003ca href=\"http://www.communityfoodbank.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Food Bank\u003c/a>, which serves Fresno and four other counties in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caples said that for every 12 meals that SNAP provides, food banks in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.feedingamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Feeding America\u003c/a> network make up just one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way,” she said. “We don’t have the resources to make up those additional meals that SNAP currently provides in our service area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait their turn to get bags of fresh vegetables, bread and other staples at a food pantry volunteers set up by a park in Mendota, California, on May 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a food pantry that volunteers set up in a parking lot in\u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mendota\u003c/a>, a small city surrounded by agricultural fields, Maria Escobar awaited her turn to reach for a Community Food Bank cardboard box with cabbage and broccoli, bread, a chicken and other staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar, 30, said she sometimes supplements her household’s CalFresh benefits with additional food from the pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my kids, it’s really difficult, because food is so expensive,” Escobar said. She has three kids at home, ages 8, 10 and 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar is a farmworker, but the jobs are seasonal. As a single parent, she said it would have been difficult to meet the proposed requirements to avoid a drop in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what I would do,” Escobar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno City College\u003c/a> student Frederick Johnson, the $190 he receives monthly in CalFresh benefits is one of the few things he can currently count on in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 22, has struggled with homelessness. But he still goes to school full time and works a minimum-wage job at the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t come from the best family. I come from a bad neighborhood as well. So I know I got to work twice as hard to be on everybody else’s level,” said Johnson, a biochemistry major who dreams of working in a lab as a medical researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick Johnson, 22, takes a break from his studies by the library at Fresno City College. Johnson wants to become a medical researcher, and says his SNAP benefits help him stay in school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, California has a waiver that exempts SNAP recipients like Johnson from having to prove they are working 20 hours per week. But that waiver expires this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to find more work hours, to keep more than one month of CalFresh benefits at a time, would have made it harder for him to stay in school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like they should add pressure to people on CalFresh,” Johnson said of lawmakers backing the farm bill. “I feel like they should sincerely just help them and give them more time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Brian Naylor and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 \u003c/a>proposed to shift billions of dollars to employment and training programs, while substantially increasing the number of people who would need to prove they are working or enrolled in job training to get the monthly nutrition benefits, which average $126 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opponents argued the changes would lead to more low-income Americans going hungry, supporters said they would help move people out of poverty and strengthen the country’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food stamps should be for the neediest in our community,” said \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a> (R-Turlock), a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a>, who voted for the farm bill in committee last month. “If you’re able-bodied and you are work-capable, we want to make sure you find a job and you get the training that you need to lift yourself out of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, adults ages 18 to 49 who don’t have dependents or disabilities must prove they are working or in job training at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits for more than three months. The bill would have substantially expanded the requirement to include adults up to age 59 and parents with children older than age 5. Recipients would have had to show they were meeting the new rules on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham represents a portion of the Central Valley, a region where SNAP, called\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CalFresh\u003c/a> in California, helps reduce more poverty than elsewhere in the state, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/calfresh-cuts-poverty-congressional-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> by the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham acknowledged the potential difficulty for low-income Californians who are already struggling to get by. But he said his own family was able to get off the food aid when he was growing up to achieve greater financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when my parents were on food stamps it was a challenging situation where my mom needed to go back out and get new training to be able to get a new job,” Denham said. “It’s very difficult, I get it. But I also understand that you are able to improve your life by working and actually having a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending on SNAP and other nutrition programs makes up the largest portion of the farm bill’s cost, about 76 percent. Last year, the federal government spent $68 billion on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the failed bill, about 1.2 million people would have stopped receiving SNAP benefits as a result of the tighter work requirements in 2028, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/6-takeaways-from-cbo-estimate-of-house-agriculture-committee-snap-proposals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The majority of them would have been parents with older kids — although children receiving the benefit would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food banks, that spelled bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any cuts to SNAP guarantee that we will see an increase of individuals, families in our food pantry lines. And we are not prepared to meet that need,” said Natalie Caples, chief operations officer at\u003ca href=\"http://www.communityfoodbank.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Food Bank\u003c/a>, which serves Fresno and four other counties in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caples said that for every 12 meals that SNAP provides, food banks in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.feedingamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Feeding America\u003c/a> network make up just one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way,” she said. “We don’t have the resources to make up those additional meals that SNAP currently provides in our service area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait their turn to get bags of fresh vegetables, bread and other staples at a food pantry volunteers set up by a park in Mendota, California, on May 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a food pantry that volunteers set up in a parking lot in\u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mendota\u003c/a>, a small city surrounded by agricultural fields, Maria Escobar awaited her turn to reach for a Community Food Bank cardboard box with cabbage and broccoli, bread, a chicken and other staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar, 30, said she sometimes supplements her household’s CalFresh benefits with additional food from the pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my kids, it’s really difficult, because food is so expensive,” Escobar said. She has three kids at home, ages 8, 10 and 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar is a farmworker, but the jobs are seasonal. As a single parent, she said it would have been difficult to meet the proposed requirements to avoid a drop in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what I would do,” Escobar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno City College\u003c/a> student Frederick Johnson, the $190 he receives monthly in CalFresh benefits is one of the few things he can currently count on in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 22, has struggled with homelessness. But he still goes to school full time and works a minimum-wage job at the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t come from the best family. I come from a bad neighborhood as well. 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