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"content": "\u003cp>Before she applied for food assistance through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Santa Clara University student Kaylee Jensen remembers the anxiety she felt when thinking about how she was going to juggle paying for her rent with affording her next meal — all while studying miles from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when a staff member from her college’s basic needs program helped her apply for CalFresh, California’s version of SNAP, Jensen said, “it was like ‘night and day’ difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could eat so much better,” Jensen, now 20, said. As a supplementary program, CalFresh is “not something you can really rely on fully, but it honestly changed so much for me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it came to finally being able to afford certain kinds of fresh food, CalFresh “really just unlocked a whole new level of eating for me,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At SCU, a private college, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/santa-clara-university\">71% of students come from families in the top 20% of earners. \u003c/a>Jensen, a first-generation college student, said she told virtually no one that she was receiving benefits — including her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Santa Clara University on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“SNAP or EBT is almost like a bad word,” she said. “It’s almost an embarrassing part of shame that you’re holding within you … Like, oh, ‘I’m trying to catch up to everyone else, but I can barely afford to live, let alone to eat.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jensen is no longer using CalFresh, she was one of over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> nationwide who depend on SNAP to put food on the table — a group that’s seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">their November benefits delayed\u003c/a> due to what is now the longest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">CalFresh recipients in the state have finally begun receiving this month’s benefits \u003c/a>after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">a federal judge’s ruling, and Congress discusses a deal to end the shutdown, President Donald Trump’s administration is now fighting the states in the courts to\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063660/california-moves-to-protect-calfresh-payments-from-federal-confusion-and-chaos\"> “undo” this month’s SNAP money\u003c/a> — leaving recipients in even more confusion and anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown delays have sharply highlighted just how many people in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">around 5.5 million people\u003c/a> — rely on SNAP. But among the program’s seniors, families, single parents and veterans, college students like Jensen are a group that’s often overlooked when it comes to depending on CalFresh to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hunger on campus\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over 400,000 public university and college students participate in CalFresh statewide — a number that surprises people, according to Jennifer Hogg, a senior research manager at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don’t think of college students when they think of who is impacted by the SNAP shut off,” Hogg said. “But today’s college student is largely lower-income — potentially first-generation — and doesn’t have a ton of financial support from home.” And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/fact-check-beef-grocery-prices-trump-vis\">groceries have become more and more expensive\u003c/a>, some colleges are also \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6520682/\">located in food deserts\u003c/a>, making it even harder to find fresh, substantial meals.[aside postID=news_12063660 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP.jpg']Jensen noted it’s common for college students to darkly joke among themselves about how little they’ve eaten that day, as they juggle studies and extracurriculars. But that could normalize the hunger, she said. According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">a UCLA study\u003c/a> from earlier this year, half of the California college students surveyed said they experienced food insecurity, and 28% of respondents said they’d skipped a meal in the past because they couldn’t afford to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re having to deal with those things, it’s impossible to think about the larger academic responsibilities that you have,” Jensen said. “I couldn’t focus on anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/news/analysis-shows-govt-shutdown-could-lead-to-at-least-414000-college-students-not-receiving-their-nov-calfresh-benefits/\">California Policy Lab’s data\u003c/a> includes students from the 2022 to 2023 academic school year at California Community Colleges, the University of California and the California State University systems. The data does not include students like Jensen, who attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, over 58,000 CalFresh recipients are within the University of California system, including Berkeley transfer student LisaMarie Fusco, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">told KQED she was “broken-hearted” by the SNAP delays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated,” she said. “People are really tired. We’re done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to juggling the demands of her academic studies with reduced access to school, “I’ll have to bite the bullet and maybe just continue writing and not think about food,” Fusco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November delays in SNAP payments due to the government shutdown are keeping around $56 million from the hundreds of thousands of students on CalFresh this month, according to the California Policy Lab’s estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a huge amount of money that we’re talking about — that families and individuals across our state aren’t getting this month, and that isn’t going to support our economy,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The view from community colleges\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the government shutdown stretched into October, some college administrators and experts began warning about a possible delay in benefits — and planning for the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools like Chabot College were immediately “trying to brainstorm how to respond …. even before students were receiving letters from the county about their benefits being impacted,” explained Muna Taqi-Eddin, the college’s CalFresh Outreach Specialist.[aside postID=news_12062743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-03-BL-KQED.jpg']College campuses quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Steps-Up-to-Support-Students-Amid-CalFresh-Delays.aspx\">deployed resources\u003c/a> for students, including expanding existing food pantries on campus and distributing grocery gift cards and fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some colleges have also made emergency grants available to affected students. Evergreen Valley College in San Jose secured $100,000 worth of emergency funding for 250 students, according to a college spokesperson. It’s money that the college hopes could help alleviate some pressures facing students, said Sean Dickerson, Evergreen Valley College’s Interim Director of Student Development, Engagement, & Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his role, Dickerson has encountered students who’ve told him they’ve been unable to focus and engage fully in their studies as they miss their November payments, ahead of their upcoming midterm exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the increase of stress and anxiety,” he said — and students are wondering if they need to decide between “rent or gas or food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all community colleges, Evergreen Valley is required to provide a \u003ca href=\"https://www.evc.edu/basic-needs\">basic needs program\u003c/a> to help provide resources regarding food, housing and transportation for their students, including those on CalFresh. According to the California Policy Lab, around 276,000 students attending a California community college use CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such student on CalFresh is 61-year-old Salimah Shabazz of Chabot College. Shabazz — known to friends and family as Mrs. Mak — recalled walking into her school’s resource center in tears when learning of the delayed November benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suffer from different health problems also. It was in limbo. I didn’t know what I was going to do,” she said. “Thank God for the student resource hub.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the shutdown, the Foundation for California Community Colleges \u003ca href=\"https://give.foundationccc.org/campaign/738630/donate\">launched a fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to assist students during the shutdown and beyond, and “to directly support our students regardless of what happens at the national level,” said Marisela Hernandez, a manager with the foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that their financial aid is not enough to cover all of their living expenses in California,” Hernandez said. “Often our students are having to choose between going to class, or going to work, or being able to provide for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community organizations step up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley student Fusco said she already relies on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/\">Berkeley Food Network\u003c/a>, which operates food pantries and deliveries in the region. And community resources have been a vital lifeline for many CalFresh recipients during an unprecedented moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard#find-food-bank-near-me\">Food banks across the Bay Area\u003c/a> have prepared for the expected surges of people visiting their distribution sites, and local restaurants are providing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">free or discounted meals\u003c/a> for impacted residents, with many focusing on families. And continuing a history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-activists-remember-radical-origins-food-justice-movement\">food justice in schools\u003c/a>, students themselves are collaborating to offer mutual aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: staff members of The Berkeley Student Food Collective, Yesenik Alfaro Puga, Emily Torres-Zepeda, Sadie Muller, Amory Marten and David Cho, at the co-op’s storefront in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The student-run grocery aims to provide healthy and low-cost food options to the campus community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodcollective.org/\">Berkeley Student Food Collective\u003c/a> is a non-profit “student-governed grocery co-op” located next to the UC Berkeley campus, led by J. Noven, the organization’s executive director. For Noven, the shutdown has highlighted existing problems, from “widespread food insecurity” to a “hollowing out of benefits for students and young people” — but the CalFresh delays were an additional blow to students already struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already, we’ve seen a significant downturn in utilization of EBT at the storefront,” Noven said — from students with dwindling or zero CalFresh funds to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Noven’s determination to help students and Berkeley residents at this time, the food collective still has its restrictions. A month into the shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told retailers — including grocery stores or corner stores — that providing discounts to EBT cardholders would be considered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/retailer/retailer-notice/reminder-snap-equal-treatment\">“SNAP violation.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are one of a network of individual or independent grocery stores that really want to be stepping up to support communities that use SNAP, and our hands are being tied by the USDA,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How \u003cstrong>‘a lifeline’ can still be out of reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen, the Santa Clara University student, said she got off CalFresh a few months ago. But her experience led her to study food insecurity at her own institution’s basic needs office, learning more about the cost-of-living in one of the most expensive regions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very alone at this school, in my issues,” Jensen said — but in the course of her research, she said she realized, “‘Wow, there’s a lot of students who are dealing with this.’”[aside postID=news_12063395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/calfresh-students.jpg']In \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/media/environmental-justice-initiative/2023-24-SCU-Food-Security-and-Basic-Needs-Report.pdf\">a survey of around 830 SCU students\u003c/a>, over a quarter reported “having very low or low food security in 2023.” “It should never be something that anyone’s ashamed of,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">the UCLA study\u003c/a>, student subpopulations that were most likely to report being food insecure were those who have been in the foster care system, first-generation students and disabled students — disparities that the study’s lead author said showed “food security is also a matter of educational equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her own studies, Jensen also delved deeper into systemic detriments of going without food as a student: \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9370637/\">the lower GPAs\u003c/a>, the higher rates of anxiety and depression, the disproportionate impacts on first-generation students and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many students, even just getting onto CalFresh is an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UCLA study, over a quarter of food-insecure students who have heard of CalFresh but never used it said they did not know how to apply. Half of them said they hadn’t applied because \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">they didn’t think they’d qualify\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in fact, many more students are eligible for CalFresh than are actually using it. According to Hogg’s UC Berkeley research, 1 in 3 UC undergrads qualify for SNAP benefits, as do 1 in 5 community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, according to 2019 data, “over a quarter of California high school students participated in CalFresh at some point during high school,” said Hogg. But those numbers then drop off after high school graduation — and a major factor is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfreshoutreach/res/toolkit/quickreference/regulationquickreference_e_students.pdf\">additional eligibility criteria\u003c/a> college students need to meet to stay on CalFresh, Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians pass The Berkeley Student Food Collective on Bancroft Way in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The co-op, known for its focus on affordability and sustainability, displays local produce outside its storefront. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students need to be either a parent, working for 20 hours a week or participating in work-study to keep receiving food benefits when they get to college. Some students may also lose eligibility for CalFresh if they live with their parents. Overall, “there’s a list of things that students have to do — above and beyond the general population — to be eligible for CalFresh,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen said that thinking about the back-and-forth court battles still happening over SNAP, and what she called “food benefits being used as a political pawn,” she gets mad. Institutions — the government and colleges alike — need to provide for their students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UN has quite literally delegated \u003ca href=\"https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/\">food security as a human right\u003c/a>,” Jensen said. “And it’s a right that Americans aren’t getting … It’s genuinely a lifeline in an extremely unaffordable country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I need to use my voice to speak up for those who can’t, because I was able to not rely on SNAP anymore,” she added. “And that’s something I did hold a lot of pride in myself for — but I also held a lot of pride when I did use SNAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it came to finally being able to afford certain kinds of fresh food, CalFresh “really just unlocked a whole new level of eating for me,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At SCU, a private college, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/santa-clara-university\">71% of students come from families in the top 20% of earners. \u003c/a>Jensen, a first-generation college student, said she told virtually no one that she was receiving benefits — including her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Santa Clara University on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“SNAP or EBT is almost like a bad word,” she said. “It’s almost an embarrassing part of shame that you’re holding within you … Like, oh, ‘I’m trying to catch up to everyone else, but I can barely afford to live, let alone to eat.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jensen is no longer using CalFresh, she was one of over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> nationwide who depend on SNAP to put food on the table — a group that’s seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">their November benefits delayed\u003c/a> due to what is now the longest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">CalFresh recipients in the state have finally begun receiving this month’s benefits \u003c/a>after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">a federal judge’s ruling, and Congress discusses a deal to end the shutdown, President Donald Trump’s administration is now fighting the states in the courts to\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063660/california-moves-to-protect-calfresh-payments-from-federal-confusion-and-chaos\"> “undo” this month’s SNAP money\u003c/a> — leaving recipients in even more confusion and anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown delays have sharply highlighted just how many people in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">around 5.5 million people\u003c/a> — rely on SNAP. But among the program’s seniors, families, single parents and veterans, college students like Jensen are a group that’s often overlooked when it comes to depending on CalFresh to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hunger on campus\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over 400,000 public university and college students participate in CalFresh statewide — a number that surprises people, according to Jennifer Hogg, a senior research manager at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don’t think of college students when they think of who is impacted by the SNAP shut off,” Hogg said. “But today’s college student is largely lower-income — potentially first-generation — and doesn’t have a ton of financial support from home.” And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/fact-check-beef-grocery-prices-trump-vis\">groceries have become more and more expensive\u003c/a>, some colleges are also \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6520682/\">located in food deserts\u003c/a>, making it even harder to find fresh, substantial meals.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jensen noted it’s common for college students to darkly joke among themselves about how little they’ve eaten that day, as they juggle studies and extracurriculars. But that could normalize the hunger, she said. According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">a UCLA study\u003c/a> from earlier this year, half of the California college students surveyed said they experienced food insecurity, and 28% of respondents said they’d skipped a meal in the past because they couldn’t afford to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re having to deal with those things, it’s impossible to think about the larger academic responsibilities that you have,” Jensen said. “I couldn’t focus on anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/news/analysis-shows-govt-shutdown-could-lead-to-at-least-414000-college-students-not-receiving-their-nov-calfresh-benefits/\">California Policy Lab’s data\u003c/a> includes students from the 2022 to 2023 academic school year at California Community Colleges, the University of California and the California State University systems. The data does not include students like Jensen, who attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, over 58,000 CalFresh recipients are within the University of California system, including Berkeley transfer student LisaMarie Fusco, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">told KQED she was “broken-hearted” by the SNAP delays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated,” she said. “People are really tired. We’re done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to juggling the demands of her academic studies with reduced access to school, “I’ll have to bite the bullet and maybe just continue writing and not think about food,” Fusco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November delays in SNAP payments due to the government shutdown are keeping around $56 million from the hundreds of thousands of students on CalFresh this month, according to the California Policy Lab’s estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a huge amount of money that we’re talking about — that families and individuals across our state aren’t getting this month, and that isn’t going to support our economy,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The view from community colleges\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the government shutdown stretched into October, some college administrators and experts began warning about a possible delay in benefits — and planning for the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools like Chabot College were immediately “trying to brainstorm how to respond …. even before students were receiving letters from the county about their benefits being impacted,” explained Muna Taqi-Eddin, the college’s CalFresh Outreach Specialist.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>College campuses quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Steps-Up-to-Support-Students-Amid-CalFresh-Delays.aspx\">deployed resources\u003c/a> for students, including expanding existing food pantries on campus and distributing grocery gift cards and fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some colleges have also made emergency grants available to affected students. Evergreen Valley College in San Jose secured $100,000 worth of emergency funding for 250 students, according to a college spokesperson. It’s money that the college hopes could help alleviate some pressures facing students, said Sean Dickerson, Evergreen Valley College’s Interim Director of Student Development, Engagement, & Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his role, Dickerson has encountered students who’ve told him they’ve been unable to focus and engage fully in their studies as they miss their November payments, ahead of their upcoming midterm exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the increase of stress and anxiety,” he said — and students are wondering if they need to decide between “rent or gas or food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all community colleges, Evergreen Valley is required to provide a \u003ca href=\"https://www.evc.edu/basic-needs\">basic needs program\u003c/a> to help provide resources regarding food, housing and transportation for their students, including those on CalFresh. According to the California Policy Lab, around 276,000 students attending a California community college use CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such student on CalFresh is 61-year-old Salimah Shabazz of Chabot College. Shabazz — known to friends and family as Mrs. Mak — recalled walking into her school’s resource center in tears when learning of the delayed November benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suffer from different health problems also. It was in limbo. I didn’t know what I was going to do,” she said. “Thank God for the student resource hub.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the shutdown, the Foundation for California Community Colleges \u003ca href=\"https://give.foundationccc.org/campaign/738630/donate\">launched a fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to assist students during the shutdown and beyond, and “to directly support our students regardless of what happens at the national level,” said Marisela Hernandez, a manager with the foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that their financial aid is not enough to cover all of their living expenses in California,” Hernandez said. “Often our students are having to choose between going to class, or going to work, or being able to provide for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community organizations step up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley student Fusco said she already relies on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/\">Berkeley Food Network\u003c/a>, which operates food pantries and deliveries in the region. And community resources have been a vital lifeline for many CalFresh recipients during an unprecedented moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard#find-food-bank-near-me\">Food banks across the Bay Area\u003c/a> have prepared for the expected surges of people visiting their distribution sites, and local restaurants are providing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">free or discounted meals\u003c/a> for impacted residents, with many focusing on families. And continuing a history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-activists-remember-radical-origins-food-justice-movement\">food justice in schools\u003c/a>, students themselves are collaborating to offer mutual aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: staff members of The Berkeley Student Food Collective, Yesenik Alfaro Puga, Emily Torres-Zepeda, Sadie Muller, Amory Marten and David Cho, at the co-op’s storefront in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The student-run grocery aims to provide healthy and low-cost food options to the campus community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodcollective.org/\">Berkeley Student Food Collective\u003c/a> is a non-profit “student-governed grocery co-op” located next to the UC Berkeley campus, led by J. Noven, the organization’s executive director. For Noven, the shutdown has highlighted existing problems, from “widespread food insecurity” to a “hollowing out of benefits for students and young people” — but the CalFresh delays were an additional blow to students already struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already, we’ve seen a significant downturn in utilization of EBT at the storefront,” Noven said — from students with dwindling or zero CalFresh funds to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Noven’s determination to help students and Berkeley residents at this time, the food collective still has its restrictions. A month into the shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told retailers — including grocery stores or corner stores — that providing discounts to EBT cardholders would be considered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/retailer/retailer-notice/reminder-snap-equal-treatment\">“SNAP violation.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are one of a network of individual or independent grocery stores that really want to be stepping up to support communities that use SNAP, and our hands are being tied by the USDA,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How \u003cstrong>‘a lifeline’ can still be out of reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen, the Santa Clara University student, said she got off CalFresh a few months ago. 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Half of them said they hadn’t applied because \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">they didn’t think they’d qualify\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in fact, many more students are eligible for CalFresh than are actually using it. According to Hogg’s UC Berkeley research, 1 in 3 UC undergrads qualify for SNAP benefits, as do 1 in 5 community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, according to 2019 data, “over a quarter of California high school students participated in CalFresh at some point during high school,” said Hogg. But those numbers then drop off after high school graduation — and a major factor is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfreshoutreach/res/toolkit/quickreference/regulationquickreference_e_students.pdf\">additional eligibility criteria\u003c/a> college students need to meet to stay on CalFresh, Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians pass The Berkeley Student Food Collective on Bancroft Way in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The co-op, known for its focus on affordability and sustainability, displays local produce outside its storefront. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students need to be either a parent, working for 20 hours a week or participating in work-study to keep receiving food benefits when they get to college. Some students may also lose eligibility for CalFresh if they live with their parents. Overall, “there’s a list of things that students have to do — above and beyond the general population — to be eligible for CalFresh,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen said that thinking about the back-and-forth court battles still happening over SNAP, and what she called “food benefits being used as a political pawn,” she gets mad. Institutions — the government and colleges alike — need to provide for their students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UN has quite literally delegated \u003ca href=\"https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/\">food security as a human right\u003c/a>,” Jensen said. “And it’s a right that Americans aren’t getting … It’s genuinely a lifeline in an extremely unaffordable country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I need to use my voice to speak up for those who can’t, because I was able to not rely on SNAP anymore,” she added. “And that’s something I did hold a lot of pride in myself for — but I also held a lot of pride when I did use SNAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But lawmakers killed the provision after the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB366\">Department of Motor Vehicles said\u003c/a> it didn’t have the time or resources to carry it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063660/california-moves-to-protect-calfresh-payments-from-federal-confusion-and-chaos\">\u003cstrong>California Moves To Protect CalFresh Payments From Federal ‘Confusion And Chaos’\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday morning announced moves to protect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">food benefits\u003c/a> that California has paid out after the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance11-8\">called on states\u003c/a> over the weekend to halt and unwind payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing for a temporary restraining order against the federal government, joined by \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/continuing-fight-full-november-snap-benefits-attorney-general-bonta-co-leads\">23 attorneys general\u003c/a> and three governors, comes as the USDA told states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025” during the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whiplash the president and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins have given Americans in recent weeks, the steps they’ve taken to prevent vulnerable families from putting food on the table, are unnecessary, unconscionable and unlawful,” Bonta said. “We refuse to stand by and allow it to continue without a fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">started in early October\u003c/a>, has led to delayed payments for people on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and has, according to Bonta, sparked “confusion and chaos” that was “concocted by the Trump administration.” Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> depend on SNAP, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/#:~:text=Earlier%20today%2C%20a%20court%20ordered,access%20the%20food%20they%20need.\">around 5.5 million\u003c/a> on California’s version, known as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday morning announced moves to protect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">food benefits\u003c/a> that California has paid out after the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance11-8\">called on states\u003c/a> over the weekend to halt and unwind payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing for a temporary restraining order against the federal government, joined by \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/continuing-fight-full-november-snap-benefits-attorney-general-bonta-co-leads\">23 attorneys general\u003c/a> and three governors, comes as the USDA told states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025” during the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whiplash the president and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins have given Americans in recent weeks, the steps they’ve taken to prevent vulnerable families from putting food on the table, are unnecessary, unconscionable and unlawful,” Bonta said. “We refuse to stand by and allow it to continue without a fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">started in early October\u003c/a>, has led to delayed payments for people on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and has, according to Bonta, sparked “confusion and chaos” that was “concocted by the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> depend on SNAP, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/#:~:text=Earlier%20today%2C%20a%20court%20ordered,access%20the%20food%20they%20need.\">around 5.5 million\u003c/a> on California’s version, known as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food benefits have been at the center of the clashes between courts, states and the administration. Last week, a federal judge ordered Trump’s administration to make a payment that would \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-orders-trump-administration-fully-fund-snap-benefits/story?id=127273708\">fully fund\u003c/a> the month of November. The administration has already ignored a previous order to resume some payments and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-shutdown-trump.html\">appealing this most recent decision\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11939767 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-scaled-e1762809304939.jpg\" alt=\"two hands hold a plastic card that reads 'golden state advantage'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Berkeley resident holds his Golden State Advantage Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision prompted states, including California, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">reinstate benefits \u003c/a>on people’s EBT cards. According to Bonta, “the vast majority” of Californians on CalFresh “have received full funding” — payments that the USDA is now attempting to claw back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance11-8\">the USDA on Saturday\u003c/a>, “failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and holding States liable for any overissuances that result from the noncompliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts is pausing this request, with \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/continuing-fight-full-november-snap-benefits-attorney-general-bonta-co-leads\">a hearing on the matter set for later Monday\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12062743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-03-BL-KQED.jpg']“If any of that back and forth left you with whiplash, you are not alone,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he later emphasized, “I want every SNAP beneficiary to know we are fighting for you tooth and nail to make sure that you can be fed. And that there will be no revocation or undoing of the benefits that you have loaded onto your cards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An end to the federal government shutdown is in sight. Eight Democratic senators \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604135/senate-shutdown-breakthrough-snap-legal-battle-cop30-climate-summit-starts\">broke rank to join Republicans\u003c/a> on Sunday in making a deal to reopen the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown in October was triggered primarily by Democrats trying to secure extended subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which supports \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-takes-aim-obamacare-historic-federal-shutdown-hits-40th-day-2025-11-09/\">lower-income Americans’ access to health care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current deal does not guarantee the extended subsidies but is based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603659/government-shutdown-senate-agreement\">an informal agreement\u003c/a> that Republicans will vote to extend them in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They got a promise that they would bring up a bill. Well, what’s that? They’re gonna vote for it? Is he gonna sign it? What’s the promise? What’s a promise? 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Alex Padilla speaks at a press briefing in San Francisco on June 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The eight Democrats have been criticized by fellow party members, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/govpressoffice/status/1987664398014677442?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">posted on social media\u003c/a>, saying, “Pathetic. This isn’t a deal. It’s a surrender. Don’t bend the knee!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s senators, Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, said they will not be voting for the deal, highlighting their concerns about health care access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This does nothing to stop the Republican-made health care crisis. It does nothing to stop premiums from doubling for millions of Americans,” Padilla said, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312852331.html\">the \u003cem>Sacramento Bee\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have heard from countless Californians who are at risk of losing their health insurance, and my position has been clear from the beginning: I would not support a government funding bill that did not fund health care tax credits,” Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The uncertainty is leaving many college students to wonder \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/11/04/calfresh-delays-leave-california-college-students-struggling-to-afford-food/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how they’ll afford their next meal.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overwhelming support of Proposition 50 in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2025-11-06/prop-50-split-up-california-shasta\">is renewing efforts\u003c/a> to split the state in half.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"page-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/11/04/calfresh-delays-leave-california-college-students-struggling-to-afford-food/\">\u003cstrong>CalFresh Delays Leave California College Students Struggling To Afford Food\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Rhode Island federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600097/snap-partial-payments-trump-administration\">has ordered the Trump administration\u003c/a> to find enough money to restore full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday. In failing to fully fund the food assistance program that covers 42 million low-income Americans, U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell Jr. said the government “failed to consider the harms individuals who rely on those benefits would suffer.” He also said President Trump showed “intent to defy a court order” when he posted on Truth Social this week that SNAP benefits would not restart until after the federal shutdown was over, a comment that was walked back by the White House. The Trump administration is appealing the decision, asking for an emergency stay in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Californians who rely on CalFresh — the state’s version of SNAP — are beginning to see their full benefits restored on their EBT cards. That’s according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\"> Governor Gavin Newsom’s office.\u003c/a> But it’s unclear how many of California’s 5.5 million SNAP recipients have had their benefits restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many college students who rely on CalFresh, all this uncertainty has left them wondering how they’ll afford their next meal. At Sacramento State’s ASI Food Pantry last week, transfer student Tylor Williams was picking up groceries — produce, a few cans of tuna and Impossible Burgers. “You can get unlimited produce here so that’d be clutch,” Williams said. “I went on Facebook Marketplace and found a $5 juicer. I wasn’t even a juicer before, but now I know why people be juicing.” Williams said this semester has been difficult. He recently moved to Sacramento from Los Angeles and has been relying on CalFresh for the past two months. “Covering these first two payments for housing — it definitely drained the account practically to zero,” he said. “So the benefits were really helpful, especially for the price of eggs, mayo, bread, oil, butter — like basic things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Nguyen, coordinator for the pantry, said demand is rising. Nearly 700 students visited the pantry in a single week earlier this semester, a record for the school. “We’re trying our best to keep volume, variety and balance for our students,” Nguyen said. That means making sure shelves are stocked with high-protein foods like tuna and culturally relevant items. She said the biggest factor driving demand is the rising cost of living. “If students are already spending the funds that they’re using on their rent, they’re not going to be able to afford a meal,” she added. “And that’s what we’re hoping our resource is able to fulfill — that gap for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2025-11-06/prop-50-split-up-california-shasta\">\u003cstrong>Prop 50 Victory Fuels ‘Two-State Solution’ For California\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shasta County supervisors voted 3-2 on Thursday to back a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AJR23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state assembly resolution\u003c/a> seeking to divide California’s coastal and inland counties into separate states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman James Gallagher from Sutter County sponsored the measure. He said it’s a response to Proposition 50, which he argues shows how state politics favor coastal priorities over inland communities. “They don’t really care about us, because they don’t have to,” he said. “At the end of the day, they can pass through whatever policy they want, over our objections, over us being a very strong and loud voice against those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution is unlikely to advance in the Assembly, where Democrats hold a supermajority. But Gallagher said getting counties and local jurisdictions to come together is what’s needed to get the state to consider their proposal.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 644,000 Bay Area residents who use CalFresh — the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, sometimes referred to as food stamps — have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">hit by a delay in November SNAP payments\u003c/a> due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">ongoing federal government shutdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062034/san-francisco-will-cover-full-snap-benefits-for-november-amid-federal-shutdown\">San Francisco \u003c/a>and Contra Costa County, residents will be receiving prepaid cards this month to cover at least some of their missing food funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money will come at a time when it’s still unclear how soon SNAP payments will be distributed this month. On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">some CalFresh recipients have begun to see benefits payments\u003c/a> arrive in full onto their EBT cards, after a judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">ruled a second time that the White House must pay these benefits\u003c/a> in full by Friday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance\">The U.S. Department of Agriculture also announced\u003c/a> Friday it will comply with the court order and start sending out full November SNAP benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still not known exactly how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>, and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">now appealed to the Supreme Court\u003c/a> after that request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all this uncertainty, if you’re on CalFresh and you live in San Francisco or Contra Costa County, here’s what to know about getting your prepaid card — from how to activate it to how much money the card will contain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">How Contra Costa residents on CalFresh can access their debit card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>I’m a San Francisco resident using CalFresh. When will my prepaid grocery card arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly 112,000 people in San Francisco receive benefits through CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the San Francisco Human Services Agency, all SNAP recipients in San Francisco will receive a letter in the mail this week — the first week of November — with instructions on how to receive their grocery card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, executive director of the SFHSA, said that if you’re a CalFresh user living in San Francisco, your letter will most likely arrive on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t need to contact the city to request your card — it’ll be mailed out automatically to you,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\"> as long as you were signed up for CalFresh by the end of October.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED that the agency isn’t publicizing the details of the instructions contained in the letter, “to help prevent fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I don’t have a fixed address within San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An estimated 5,000–6,000 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco use CalFresh, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unhoused or currently living in a shelter, and if you have your mail delivered via general delivery to the Hyde St. post office, your letter about the grocery card will be delivered to that location, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, he said, you can speak to staff at the San Francisco community support agency, homeless shelter or Navigation Center you use, and they’ll be able to help you activate the card too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need to receive the letter to activate the card,” Rhorer said, since “you can actually call the call center with your personal identifying information, and they can activate the digital card right there.” Support staff at these agencies and shelters will provide the correct phone number for you to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I access my grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You won’t receive the actual grocery card itself in the mail. Instead, the letter will contain an activation code, which will be unique to you and which will allow you to access a digital gift card either online or by phone, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll then be able to load your card funds onto your phone through Apple Wallet or Google Play, he said. If you prefer, you can request a physical card in the mail, but this will take 5–7 business days to arrive, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one card will be sent to San Francisco CalFresh users, and you’ll have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">activate your card by Dec. 31 \u003c/a>for it to remain valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should follow the instructions in the letter to activate your card either online or through a call center, when you’ll be prompted to “enter personal identifying information,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Gudmundsdottir sorts fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means that if your letter was stolen by someone else who attempted to use your activation code to access your gift card, they still won’t know your personal information to be able to complete the process, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll never be asked for your bank account details or Social Security information to redeem the grocery card, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFHSA said that you’ll be able to use the prepaid grocery card at grocery stores and “most markets that accept EBT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The replacement card will\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/calfresh/using-calfresh\"> work exactly as their CalFresh EBT card would have worked\u003c/a>,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like EBT, your card’s funds “cannot be used to purchase sugary or alcoholic beverages or tobacco products,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13982957 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/monster-pho-free-event-1020x947.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I get through my prepaid grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One thing to note: the amount on your grocery card might not match the amount you’d have normally received in November through your CalFresh benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because how much each household receives on their card has been calculated “based on the average CalFresh benefit amount for households of a similar size to yours,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The amount you’ll see on your card:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> For a 1–2 person household: $200\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a 3–4 person household: $350\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a household with 5 or more people: $500\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Some households might get a little bit more in the gift card” than their regular EBT funds, Rhorer said — but “some households might get a little less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still use my card if the government shutdown ends or partial SNAP benefits are paid this month?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The grocery card program is intended to “help offset the impact of federal actions that have delayed the reloading of EBT cards for CalFresh recipients,” SFHSA said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">will move ahead regardless \u003c/a>of what happens this month at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer said that even if the federal government releases partial SNAP funds this month, he suspects that this might happen “maybe in mid-November or late November” — which would still be some time after CalFresh payments were meant to arrive, in the first 10 days of the month, and after San Francisco CalFresh households have accessed their prepaid gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So, hopefully, at the end of the day, the households are certainly made whole for their benefits in November,” Rhorer said. “And perhaps many households will receive a little bit more than they otherwise would have received.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the federal government announces the imminent release of SNAP dollars, “It’s going to be a 7–10 day delay,” he said. “We want people to be able to put food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do if my card doesn’t arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED by email that if you’re a San Francisco resident receiving CalFresh and you don’t receive your letter by Monday, Nov. 10, reach out to the agency’s CalFresh call center at 855-355-5757.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us\">contact SFHSA directly by phone or email\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us/locations\">visit an SFHSA office in person\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For general questions about the grocery cards, San Francisco CalFresh users can call 3-1-1, according to SFHSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">\u003c/a>I’m a Contra Costa County resident using CalFresh. When can I access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 65,000 households in Contra Costa County rely on CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Monday, Nov. 10, Contra Costa residents on SNAP can \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/2025/11/05/county-declares-emergency-over-calfresh-funding-disruption-due-to-federal-shutdown/\">pick up a debit card in person from one of the county’s Employment and Human Services Department buildings\u003c/a>, located at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1305 Macdonald Ave., Richmond\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>151 Linus Pauling Drive, Hercules\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>400 Ellinwood Way, Pleasant Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4545 Delta Fair Blvd., Antioch\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953001\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Stacked brown cardboard boxes of cauliflower and sweet potatoes in a paved outdoor area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of vegetables await distribution at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. Volunteers at food pantries often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line, and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cards can be picked up every day starting Monday, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The last day to pick up a debit card is Saturday, Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Bullock-Hayes, director of the Workforce Services Bureau for the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department, said that county residents will first receive a text message inviting them to an appointment at one of these locations — “to address shorter wait times, we hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if an appointment time isn’t convenient, “people are welcome to come whenever they need to, because we want to make sure that people have access to food,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I can’t pick up my Contra Costa debit card in person that week?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If circumstances mean you can’t come to one of those four offices to collect your card, you should \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/overview/contact/\">contact the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department\u003c/a> to arrange an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will provide support,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should bring your EBT card and a form of ID to pick up your Contra Costa debit card, Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, which is only providing prepaid cards to residents who were already using CalFresh by October, Contra Costa County will also provide cards to residents who are eligible for CalFresh but who aren’t already signed up — after helping them apply for SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a Contra Costa County resident has picked up their physical grocery card, they should be able to “go to the grocery stores or [other] resources to purchase foods right away,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll be able to use your debit card like you would have used your EBT card, and “it can be used at any retailer that sells food, and those retailers that usually carry and accept EBT cards,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which foods and items you can purchase using the debit card, Bullock-Hayes said you’ll be informed about those stipulations when you first access your debit card, which “will outline how the card should be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12062018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I get through my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The dollar amount on your debit card will likely not match the amount you’d have normally received in November through your CalFresh benefits in Contra Costa, and will be based on household size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062817/more-bay-area-counties-join-push-to-send-prepaid-grocery-cards-amid-federal-snap-lapse\">the county had planned to initially load the debit cards with 50% of the available funds\u003c/a> and reload the cards every week. But now, Contra Costa CalFresh recipients will have the full benefit amount available on their debit card when they pick it up, which is intended to last two weeks, Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t throw your debit card away once you’ve used up the funds, she said. “After the two weeks, we will need to evaluate the status of the federal shutdown and what information we receive,” Bullock-Hayes said. “If additional benefits are available, then we will be able to add those to the cards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still use my card if the government shutdown ends or partial SNAP benefits are paid this month?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. “We are planning to move forward with issuing the cards and giving the money to residents to use,” said Bullock-Hayes, and the county has no plans to stop card usage if there are further developments at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to go out and use the … benefits for the food that they need,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aemslie\">\u003cem>Alex Emslie\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still not known exactly how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>, and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">now appealed to the Supreme Court\u003c/a> after that request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all this uncertainty, if you’re on CalFresh and you live in San Francisco or Contra Costa County, here’s what to know about getting your prepaid card — from how to activate it to how much money the card will contain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">How Contra Costa residents on CalFresh can access their debit card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>I’m a San Francisco resident using CalFresh. When will my prepaid grocery card arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly 112,000 people in San Francisco receive benefits through CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the San Francisco Human Services Agency, all SNAP recipients in San Francisco will receive a letter in the mail this week — the first week of November — with instructions on how to receive their grocery card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, executive director of the SFHSA, said that if you’re a CalFresh user living in San Francisco, your letter will most likely arrive on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t need to contact the city to request your card — it’ll be mailed out automatically to you,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\"> as long as you were signed up for CalFresh by the end of October.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED that the agency isn’t publicizing the details of the instructions contained in the letter, “to help prevent fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I don’t have a fixed address within San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An estimated 5,000–6,000 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco use CalFresh, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unhoused or currently living in a shelter, and if you have your mail delivered via general delivery to the Hyde St. post office, your letter about the grocery card will be delivered to that location, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, he said, you can speak to staff at the San Francisco community support agency, homeless shelter or Navigation Center you use, and they’ll be able to help you activate the card too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need to receive the letter to activate the card,” Rhorer said, since “you can actually call the call center with your personal identifying information, and they can activate the digital card right there.” Support staff at these agencies and shelters will provide the correct phone number for you to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I access my grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You won’t receive the actual grocery card itself in the mail. Instead, the letter will contain an activation code, which will be unique to you and which will allow you to access a digital gift card either online or by phone, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll then be able to load your card funds onto your phone through Apple Wallet or Google Play, he said. If you prefer, you can request a physical card in the mail, but this will take 5–7 business days to arrive, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one card will be sent to San Francisco CalFresh users, and you’ll have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">activate your card by Dec. 31 \u003c/a>for it to remain valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should follow the instructions in the letter to activate your card either online or through a call center, when you’ll be prompted to “enter personal identifying information,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Gudmundsdottir sorts fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means that if your letter was stolen by someone else who attempted to use your activation code to access your gift card, they still won’t know your personal information to be able to complete the process, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll never be asked for your bank account details or Social Security information to redeem the grocery card, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFHSA said that you’ll be able to use the prepaid grocery card at grocery stores and “most markets that accept EBT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The replacement card will\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/calfresh/using-calfresh\"> work exactly as their CalFresh EBT card would have worked\u003c/a>,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like EBT, your card’s funds “cannot be used to purchase sugary or alcoholic beverages or tobacco products,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I get through my prepaid grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One thing to note: the amount on your grocery card might not match the amount you’d have normally received in November through your CalFresh benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because how much each household receives on their card has been calculated “based on the average CalFresh benefit amount for households of a similar size to yours,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The amount you’ll see on your card:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> For a 1–2 person household: $200\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a 3–4 person household: $350\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a household with 5 or more people: $500\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Some households might get a little bit more in the gift card” than their regular EBT funds, Rhorer said — but “some households might get a little less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still use my card if the government shutdown ends or partial SNAP benefits are paid this month?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The grocery card program is intended to “help offset the impact of federal actions that have delayed the reloading of EBT cards for CalFresh recipients,” SFHSA said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">will move ahead regardless \u003c/a>of what happens this month at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer said that even if the federal government releases partial SNAP funds this month, he suspects that this might happen “maybe in mid-November or late November” — which would still be some time after CalFresh payments were meant to arrive, in the first 10 days of the month, and after San Francisco CalFresh households have accessed their prepaid gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So, hopefully, at the end of the day, the households are certainly made whole for their benefits in November,” Rhorer said. “And perhaps many households will receive a little bit more than they otherwise would have received.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the federal government announces the imminent release of SNAP dollars, “It’s going to be a 7–10 day delay,” he said. “We want people to be able to put food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do if my card doesn’t arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED by email that if you’re a San Francisco resident receiving CalFresh and you don’t receive your letter by Monday, Nov. 10, reach out to the agency’s CalFresh call center at 855-355-5757.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us\">contact SFHSA directly by phone or email\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us/locations\">visit an SFHSA office in person\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For general questions about the grocery cards, San Francisco CalFresh users can call 3-1-1, according to SFHSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">\u003c/a>I’m a Contra Costa County resident using CalFresh. When can I access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 65,000 households in Contra Costa County rely on CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Monday, Nov. 10, Contra Costa residents on SNAP can \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/2025/11/05/county-declares-emergency-over-calfresh-funding-disruption-due-to-federal-shutdown/\">pick up a debit card in person from one of the county’s Employment and Human Services Department buildings\u003c/a>, located at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1305 Macdonald Ave., Richmond\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>151 Linus Pauling Drive, Hercules\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>400 Ellinwood Way, Pleasant Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4545 Delta Fair Blvd., Antioch\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953001\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Stacked brown cardboard boxes of cauliflower and sweet potatoes in a paved outdoor area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of vegetables await distribution at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. Volunteers at food pantries often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line, and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cards can be picked up every day starting Monday, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The last day to pick up a debit card is Saturday, Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Bullock-Hayes, director of the Workforce Services Bureau for the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department, said that county residents will first receive a text message inviting them to an appointment at one of these locations — “to address shorter wait times, we hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if an appointment time isn’t convenient, “people are welcome to come whenever they need to, because we want to make sure that people have access to food,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I can’t pick up my Contra Costa debit card in person that week?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If circumstances mean you can’t come to one of those four offices to collect your card, you should \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/overview/contact/\">contact the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department\u003c/a> to arrange an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will provide support,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should bring your EBT card and a form of ID to pick up your Contra Costa debit card, Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, which is only providing prepaid cards to residents who were already using CalFresh by October, Contra Costa County will also provide cards to residents who are eligible for CalFresh but who aren’t already signed up — after helping them apply for SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a Contra Costa County resident has picked up their physical grocery card, they should be able to “go to the grocery stores or [other] resources to purchase foods right away,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll be able to use your debit card like you would have used your EBT card, and “it can be used at any retailer that sells food, and those retailers that usually carry and accept EBT cards,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which foods and items you can purchase using the debit card, Bullock-Hayes said you’ll be informed about those stipulations when you first access your debit card, which “will outline how the card should be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Contra Costa County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to provide millions of dollars in direct funding to more than 65,000 households that rely on federal food assistance, joining \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062577/bay-area-counties-pour-millions-into-food-aid-assistance-as-clock-runs-out-on-snap\">similar efforts across the Bay Area\u003c/a> as benefits remain in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062530/judges-order-the-trump-administration-to-use-contingency-funds-for-snap-payments-during-the-shutdown\">multiple federal judges\u003c/a> ordered the Trump administration on Friday to continue operating the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program despite the lapse in appropriations since Oct. 1, when the federal government shut down, President Trump is still threatening to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492285081397189\">withhold any funds\u003c/a> until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if payments do go out this month, recipients across the country are expected to receive delayed and incomplete benefit transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the uncertainty, Contra Costa County will allocate up to $21 million to provide debit cards to households on CalFresh, California’s iteration of SNAP, beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The loss of CalFresh benefits threatens the food security of over 110,000 county residents,” said Marla Stuart, the director of East Bay County’s Employment & Human Services Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the U.S. Department of Agriculture issues partial SNAP benefits for November, she said, those are not likely to hit recipients’ accounts during the usual window during the first 10 days of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do anticipate the best-case scenario at this point, and everything is changing, that we are several weeks away from any kind of distribution, if there is a distribution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards will initially be loaded with 50% of the total funds, then reloaded with each half of the remaining funding weekly for the following two weeks. It wasn’t clear whether recipients would receive the full dollar amount they usually do through CalFresh, but Contra Costa County households received just over $21 million in electronic benefit transfers in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients will be able to pick up the cards at the county’s Employment & Human Services Department (EHSD) buildings in Richmond, Hercules, Pleasant Hill and Antioch every weekday next week between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The supervisors asked EHSD staff to consider adding weekend hours to the pick-up schedule, though whether they will be able to do so wasn’t determined before the vote.[aside postID=news_12062685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SNAP-RECIPIENTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg']To help households get through this week, Stuart said the county has already purchased the equivalent of 10,000 food boxes from the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and begun distributing their contents. She said the food should be enough to serve about 40,000 people for two weeks, and estimated it would likely last through the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will load the debit cards using millions of dollars from COVID-19 reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other unallocated money in its general fund set aside for contingencies to pay for the cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all of the supervisors agreed the lapse in CalFresh funding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">constituted a crisis\u003c/a> worth spending this funding on, multiple raised questions about the sustainability of spending such large sums to cover federal shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that there’s an urgent need, and we are in a crisis in so many ways,” Supervisor Ken Carlson said. “I also want to be thinking that we’re 10 months into this crisis. We do not know what court order, what action [is coming]; what Congress, what this president will do. I want to be very thoughtful of how we proceed, because we might be here three months from now for a totally different issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere across the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062577/bay-area-counties-pour-millions-into-food-aid-assistance-as-clock-runs-out-on-snap\">counties have taken similar steps\u003c/a> to support households whose usual electronic benefit transfers aren’t arriving this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmark Bernante (left) and Megan Feria sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also providing direct aid, sending $18 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">electronic gift cards\u003c/a> to CalFresh recipients. Alameda County, meanwhile, is sending $10 million in emergency funding to local food banks and food assistance programs, and it has raised an additional $1.5 million, partly through philanthropic support, for an emergency food program to support food banks and smaller, community-based organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Marin County supervisors allocated $800,000 to send prepaid cards to the county’s 15,000 CalFresh recipients. The program will be facilitated through the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, and funding will be issued in $200,000 increments for four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local jurisdictions and the state have quickly mobilized to help people continue to put food on the table, how long they’ll be able to do so is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a Band-Aid,” Contra Costa Supervisor Diane Burgis said. “Are we also working on if this is to continue for another month or two, what we would do? This is four weeks. So what is the next plan after that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the uncertainty, Contra Costa County will allocate up to $21 million to provide debit cards to households on CalFresh, California’s iteration of SNAP, beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The loss of CalFresh benefits threatens the food security of over 110,000 county residents,” said Marla Stuart, the director of East Bay County’s Employment & Human Services Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the U.S. Department of Agriculture issues partial SNAP benefits for November, she said, those are not likely to hit recipients’ accounts during the usual window during the first 10 days of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do anticipate the best-case scenario at this point, and everything is changing, that we are several weeks away from any kind of distribution, if there is a distribution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards will initially be loaded with 50% of the total funds, then reloaded with each half of the remaining funding weekly for the following two weeks. It wasn’t clear whether recipients would receive the full dollar amount they usually do through CalFresh, but Contra Costa County households received just over $21 million in electronic benefit transfers in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients will be able to pick up the cards at the county’s Employment & Human Services Department (EHSD) buildings in Richmond, Hercules, Pleasant Hill and Antioch every weekday next week between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The supervisors asked EHSD staff to consider adding weekend hours to the pick-up schedule, though whether they will be able to do so wasn’t determined before the vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To help households get through this week, Stuart said the county has already purchased the equivalent of 10,000 food boxes from the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and begun distributing their contents. She said the food should be enough to serve about 40,000 people for two weeks, and estimated it would likely last through the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will load the debit cards using millions of dollars from COVID-19 reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other unallocated money in its general fund set aside for contingencies to pay for the cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all of the supervisors agreed the lapse in CalFresh funding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">constituted a crisis\u003c/a> worth spending this funding on, multiple raised questions about the sustainability of spending such large sums to cover federal shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that there’s an urgent need, and we are in a crisis in so many ways,” Supervisor Ken Carlson said. “I also want to be thinking that we’re 10 months into this crisis. We do not know what court order, what action [is coming]; what Congress, what this president will do. I want to be very thoughtful of how we proceed, because we might be here three months from now for a totally different issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere across the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062577/bay-area-counties-pour-millions-into-food-aid-assistance-as-clock-runs-out-on-snap\">counties have taken similar steps\u003c/a> to support households whose usual electronic benefit transfers aren’t arriving this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmark Bernante (left) and Megan Feria sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also providing direct aid, sending $18 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">electronic gift cards\u003c/a> to CalFresh recipients. Alameda County, meanwhile, is sending $10 million in emergency funding to local food banks and food assistance programs, and it has raised an additional $1.5 million, partly through philanthropic support, for an emergency food program to support food banks and smaller, community-based organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Marin County supervisors allocated $800,000 to send prepaid cards to the county’s 15,000 CalFresh recipients. The program will be facilitated through the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, and funding will be issued in $200,000 increments for four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local jurisdictions and the state have quickly mobilized to help people continue to put food on the table, how long they’ll be able to do so is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a Band-Aid,” Contra Costa Supervisor Diane Burgis said. “Are we also working on if this is to continue for another month or two, what we would do? This is four weeks. So what is the next plan after that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:35] \u003c/em> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. It was a sunny Monday morning at the Solano County Fairgrounds when I went to meet Heather Perrini, the executive director of Food is Free Bay Area. On this day, they were receiving donations and getting ready to distribute things like produce, bread, and canned goods for the following day. Even the office manager was helping lift donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:15] \u003c/em>We got two drivers and our office manager doing not office management stuff because everybody needs to do it. All hands on deck. Office manager lifting 50 pound bags of produce, right? Those are huge bags of carrots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:32] \u003c/em>Nearly 42 million Americans who rely on federal SNAP benefits are worried about how they’ll feed their families this month as the government shutdown continues into its 36th day, now the longest shutdown in U.S. History. And although the Trump administration said it would issue partial payments this month thanks to a court order, people like Heather don’t expect the lines to get shorter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:05] \u003c/em>It’s increasing every month with or without an emergency as more people are feeling the effects of inflation, as more are feeling of the rising grocery prices and all of the things that are happening in our community right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:26] \u003c/em>Heather says the needs in Solano County are especially dire compared to other wealthier counties in the Bay Area. So today we take you to Food is Free’s distribution site in Vallejo as they prepare for another day of giving out food under the government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie DeNicholas inspects food donations at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>Can you introduce yourself for us, Heather? Tell us who you are, what you do, and where we are right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>Hi, my name is Heather Pierini. I am the executive director of Food is Free Bay Area, a nonprofit based here in Vallejo in Solano County. Right now we’re standing in McCormick Hall at the Solano county fairgrounds in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>This is an actually a familiar place to me. My family comes here every year for a fiesta, but I’ve never seen it in this form, which is like, it’s now, I mean, a food distribution, food donation space. I mean can you like describe for us what is happening here today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:19] \u003c/em>So we use this site for our Tuesday and Thursday food distributions. We distribute food on average to about 400 to 450 families before the EBT and SNAP shut down. 450 families would come here on a Tuesday and a Thursday afternoon each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:39] \u003c/em>That’s a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:39] \u003c/em>Yeah, it’s a lot. Food is Free started as a idea put together that we all come together as a community and kind of share with what is available. I loved that idea many, many, many years ago and I put in a permaculture food forest with the help of sustainable Solano at my house in Benicia and we always would grow way too much food and I gave it away in our front yard. And Over the years, it became kind of a community sharing space. And then COVID hit and I saw people looking at our food stand for food in this little neighborhood in Benicia where you wouldn’t expect to see a lot of food insecurity and we were seeing it. You hadn’t seen anything like that before. I hadn’t see the volume of people. So what we did was we coordinated with a bunch of other organizations and neighbors and friends in the community to collect donations, to start finding food, to create more food stands. And so Food is Free Benicia all of a sudden became Food is free Solano and then all of the sudden became Food is Free Bay Area. So we go everywhere from Rio Vista, Dixon. All the way down to Contra Costa County for picking up food, delivering food. And we allow anyone anywhere to come and access food. People will ask me what the requirements are and I’m like, you’re an alive human. That is your requirement right there. You’re a live human asking for food and we will make sure there’s something for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:29] \u003c/em>It’s hard to imagine that you started just like with a table in your front yard because now we’re standing in McCormick Hall on the Solano County fairgrounds. Like this is very much an operation. You have, I mean, dozens and dozens of pallets of food here. This electric vehicle van thing I mean, did you expect to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:50] \u003c/em> Absolutely not. There was no expectation that this would grow. There, was for me, it was I want to try and make sure people don’t experience food insecurity during this huge pandemic issue because I grew up food insecure and I was a single mom for a long time and I thought, you know, I’m stable now. What if I weren’t? And then all of a sudden I’m… Learning about food insecurity in Solano County, I’m seeing that Solano County is the lowest funded county for non-profit money. So we are magnificently underfunded and we are extraordinarily high need. So right now what we’re looking at with this SNAP and EBT shutdown, we’re looking at kind of a perfect storm and once again we’re going into emergency response mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pallets of food at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:42] \u003c/em>I mean Heather, it’s been like a month now since the start of the government shutdown. I wonder if there was like a specific moment that things seemed to get bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:54] \u003c/em>Third week of October was when things seemed to get bad, when people thought, okay, what if they don’t fund SNAP? We’d started seeing impacts from people from Travis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:05] \u003c/em>Travis Air Force Base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:06] \u003c/em>So we started seeing more furloughed workers and then as the shutdown continues, because of SNAP and EBT being halted, for the last two weeks we have seen a drastic increase in numbers. We distribute food on average to about 400 to 450 families before the EBT and SNAP down in mid-October. We started seeing a large amount of new families coming in at each distribution. So Tuesday the 21st, we served, I think, 573 families, which was a massive increase. Then that Thursday we served even more. And the next Tuesday we topped 600 families, which was record. And then Thursday the 30th, so day before Halloween, we served 673 families. In three hours here at the Fairgrounds. Had you ever seen anything like that before? At our regular food distributions, no. I personally do all the check-in because, truthfully, it’s one of the things I love about this work is talking with our community and being able to say, hi, I’m glad you’re here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:23] \u003c/em>So you’re presumably checking in folks who are standing in line to receive food. It sounds like many folks who came the last couple of days have been first timers. I mean, what have you been hearing from people about why they’re standing in line and just like what they’re experiencing right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:43] \u003c/em>People are afraid. People are scared that they’re not going to have enough food for their family. We have seen everything from people crying in line, to people giving hugs in line to people seeing neighbors or friends. And then in the line, we have people telling the new people, kind of this is what information you’ll need to give when you get up there. They’re really nice, it’s okay. And we have this community supporting the new people, I feel like. There are a lot of elderly people, there are a lots of disabled people, there are lot of families with children who come through. So they come to the front desk where I’m set up and I ask the three questions. I just need a first name, a zip code, and how many people you’re feeding. Beyond that, any other information is a bonus. People will come in with their ID out and say, what do I need to qualify? Here’s my pay stub, and I’m like, no, it’s okay. We’re here to make sure that you have the food and the resources you need. I don’t need that from you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:46] \u003c/em>Do you get people who are, I mean, especially with the increase in immigration and customs enforcement actions around the Bay… I mean have you seen fewer people wanting to show up into the community, or people being worried\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:59] \u003c/em>Yes, we did see that. We saw a drop in our Latino population when there was a larger risk of ice coming out. One of the things I saw was children coming through for their families. And what the gossip was around that from other participants was that if the parents were undocumented, the kids had legal status and felt more comfortable sending the kids through to pick up food. And we have always allowed kids to come through and get food because we know that it’s probably a pretty hard situation going on. I get asked this very frequently actually, how do you know they need it? How do you they need food? And I asked them, well, how many times have you come out to stand in line at the fairgrounds for free food? Because if you’re coming and spending hours of your day waiting in line, in the heat, in rain, in wind, to come get food that someone else has provided that you have some choice about what you’d pick, but you don’t have choice like you would in a grocery store. You’re not doing that for fun. You’re doing that to scam the system. What you’re doing is trying to make it. You’re trying to survive. And… And that could be really hard to have to do. Oh yes. Could be a lot of shame associated with that, I imagine. Yes, there can be a lotta shame associated with that and so I really try, when we train our volunteers, we try and let them know, you know, if someone comes in here with a bad attitude. Our job is not to police somebody’s attitude. When people come here, they’re coming in the full gamut of humanity. Our job, is to be here to provide the food, to give them a smile, to hopefully help them make it through this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Torres unloads food that was picked up from a local grocery store at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>We were talking earlier about how last week a federal judge actually ordered the Trump administration to begin redistributing SNAP benefits, mentioning a moral obligation to do so, but of course we don’t know how soon those benefits will come or how much people will actually be getting. So I mean, do you still have concerns?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:28] \u003c/em>Yes, I definitely have concerns. Number one, there’s this erosion of trust in the system, and that erosion in trust in the system is what’s going to keep people in fear. I don’t know how fast the system can ramp back up. I don’t know how much will be paid, if any. And if I’m in that position of not knowing and I’m tapped into all of the email lists and I mean, food insecurity is my job, then someone who is working and taking care of a family, getting verifiable information is difficult right now. Even if EBT goes out, I don’t think we’re gonna go back to normal, whatever normal was before this. And the food bank sees the same thing. Once the numbers increase, they don’t really go back down to. Either pre-pandemic levels or pre-emergency levels. We have failed as a society to create a system where working a full-time job doesn’t pay for rent and basic necessities for a small family. It just doesn’t. This right here, I wish I didn’t have to do it. I would love to be worked out of a job. I think that nonprofits are bearing the brunt and bearing the weight of the failures of our social services system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Well, Heather, thank you so much for making the time to chat with me. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:04] \u003c/em>You’re very welcome and thank you for coming and helping us kind of share about what we do, helping kind of let the community know what we, do and hopefully people who are able will be able to donate, volunteer, share the word. All of that is amazing. Thank you, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:35] \u003c/em> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. It was a sunny Monday morning at the Solano County Fairgrounds when I went to meet Heather Perrini, the executive director of Food is Free Bay Area. On this day, they were receiving donations and getting ready to distribute things like produce, bread, and canned goods for the following day. Even the office manager was helping lift donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:15] \u003c/em>We got two drivers and our office manager doing not office management stuff because everybody needs to do it. All hands on deck. Office manager lifting 50 pound bags of produce, right? Those are huge bags of carrots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:32] \u003c/em>Nearly 42 million Americans who rely on federal SNAP benefits are worried about how they’ll feed their families this month as the government shutdown continues into its 36th day, now the longest shutdown in U.S. History. And although the Trump administration said it would issue partial payments this month thanks to a court order, people like Heather don’t expect the lines to get shorter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:05] \u003c/em>It’s increasing every month with or without an emergency as more people are feeling the effects of inflation, as more are feeling of the rising grocery prices and all of the things that are happening in our community right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:26] \u003c/em>Heather says the needs in Solano County are especially dire compared to other wealthier counties in the Bay Area. So today we take you to Food is Free’s distribution site in Vallejo as they prepare for another day of giving out food under the government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie DeNicholas inspects food donations at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>Can you introduce yourself for us, Heather? Tell us who you are, what you do, and where we are right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>Hi, my name is Heather Pierini. I am the executive director of Food is Free Bay Area, a nonprofit based here in Vallejo in Solano County. Right now we’re standing in McCormick Hall at the Solano county fairgrounds in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>This is an actually a familiar place to me. My family comes here every year for a fiesta, but I’ve never seen it in this form, which is like, it’s now, I mean, a food distribution, food donation space. I mean can you like describe for us what is happening here today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:19] \u003c/em>So we use this site for our Tuesday and Thursday food distributions. We distribute food on average to about 400 to 450 families before the EBT and SNAP shut down. 450 families would come here on a Tuesday and a Thursday afternoon each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:39] \u003c/em>That’s a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:39] \u003c/em>Yeah, it’s a lot. Food is Free started as a idea put together that we all come together as a community and kind of share with what is available. I loved that idea many, many, many years ago and I put in a permaculture food forest with the help of sustainable Solano at my house in Benicia and we always would grow way too much food and I gave it away in our front yard. And Over the years, it became kind of a community sharing space. And then COVID hit and I saw people looking at our food stand for food in this little neighborhood in Benicia where you wouldn’t expect to see a lot of food insecurity and we were seeing it. You hadn’t seen anything like that before. I hadn’t see the volume of people. So what we did was we coordinated with a bunch of other organizations and neighbors and friends in the community to collect donations, to start finding food, to create more food stands. And so Food is Free Benicia all of a sudden became Food is free Solano and then all of the sudden became Food is Free Bay Area. So we go everywhere from Rio Vista, Dixon. All the way down to Contra Costa County for picking up food, delivering food. And we allow anyone anywhere to come and access food. People will ask me what the requirements are and I’m like, you’re an alive human. That is your requirement right there. You’re a live human asking for food and we will make sure there’s something for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:29] \u003c/em>It’s hard to imagine that you started just like with a table in your front yard because now we’re standing in McCormick Hall on the Solano County fairgrounds. Like this is very much an operation. You have, I mean, dozens and dozens of pallets of food here. This electric vehicle van thing I mean, did you expect to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:50] \u003c/em> Absolutely not. There was no expectation that this would grow. There, was for me, it was I want to try and make sure people don’t experience food insecurity during this huge pandemic issue because I grew up food insecure and I was a single mom for a long time and I thought, you know, I’m stable now. What if I weren’t? And then all of a sudden I’m… Learning about food insecurity in Solano County, I’m seeing that Solano County is the lowest funded county for non-profit money. So we are magnificently underfunded and we are extraordinarily high need. So right now what we’re looking at with this SNAP and EBT shutdown, we’re looking at kind of a perfect storm and once again we’re going into emergency response mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pallets of food at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:42] \u003c/em>I mean Heather, it’s been like a month now since the start of the government shutdown. I wonder if there was like a specific moment that things seemed to get bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:54] \u003c/em>Third week of October was when things seemed to get bad, when people thought, okay, what if they don’t fund SNAP? We’d started seeing impacts from people from Travis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:05] \u003c/em>Travis Air Force Base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:06] \u003c/em>So we started seeing more furloughed workers and then as the shutdown continues, because of SNAP and EBT being halted, for the last two weeks we have seen a drastic increase in numbers. We distribute food on average to about 400 to 450 families before the EBT and SNAP down in mid-October. We started seeing a large amount of new families coming in at each distribution. So Tuesday the 21st, we served, I think, 573 families, which was a massive increase. Then that Thursday we served even more. And the next Tuesday we topped 600 families, which was record. And then Thursday the 30th, so day before Halloween, we served 673 families. In three hours here at the Fairgrounds. Had you ever seen anything like that before? At our regular food distributions, no. I personally do all the check-in because, truthfully, it’s one of the things I love about this work is talking with our community and being able to say, hi, I’m glad you’re here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:23] \u003c/em>So you’re presumably checking in folks who are standing in line to receive food. It sounds like many folks who came the last couple of days have been first timers. I mean, what have you been hearing from people about why they’re standing in line and just like what they’re experiencing right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:43] \u003c/em>People are afraid. People are scared that they’re not going to have enough food for their family. We have seen everything from people crying in line, to people giving hugs in line to people seeing neighbors or friends. And then in the line, we have people telling the new people, kind of this is what information you’ll need to give when you get up there. They’re really nice, it’s okay. And we have this community supporting the new people, I feel like. There are a lot of elderly people, there are a lots of disabled people, there are lot of families with children who come through. So they come to the front desk where I’m set up and I ask the three questions. I just need a first name, a zip code, and how many people you’re feeding. Beyond that, any other information is a bonus. People will come in with their ID out and say, what do I need to qualify? Here’s my pay stub, and I’m like, no, it’s okay. We’re here to make sure that you have the food and the resources you need. I don’t need that from you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:46] \u003c/em>Do you get people who are, I mean, especially with the increase in immigration and customs enforcement actions around the Bay… I mean have you seen fewer people wanting to show up into the community, or people being worried\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heather Pierini: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:59] \u003c/em>Yes, we did see that. We saw a drop in our Latino population when there was a larger risk of ice coming out. One of the things I saw was children coming through for their families. And what the gossip was around that from other participants was that if the parents were undocumented, the kids had legal status and felt more comfortable sending the kids through to pick up food. And we have always allowed kids to come through and get food because we know that it’s probably a pretty hard situation going on. I get asked this very frequently actually, how do you know they need it? How do you they need food? And I asked them, well, how many times have you come out to stand in line at the fairgrounds for free food? Because if you’re coming and spending hours of your day waiting in line, in the heat, in rain, in wind, to come get food that someone else has provided that you have some choice about what you’d pick, but you don’t have choice like you would in a grocery store. You’re not doing that for fun. You’re doing that to scam the system. What you’re doing is trying to make it. You’re trying to survive. And… And that could be really hard to have to do. Oh yes. Could be a lot of shame associated with that, I imagine. Yes, there can be a lotta shame associated with that and so I really try, when we train our volunteers, we try and let them know, you know, if someone comes in here with a bad attitude. Our job is not to police somebody’s attitude. When people come here, they’re coming in the full gamut of humanity. Our job, is to be here to provide the food, to give them a smile, to hopefully help them make it through this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Torres unloads food that was picked up from a local grocery store at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>We were talking earlier about how last week a federal judge actually ordered the Trump administration to begin redistributing SNAP benefits, mentioning a moral obligation to do so, but of course we don’t know how soon those benefits will come or how much people will actually be getting. 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We have failed as a society to create a system where working a full-time job doesn’t pay for rent and basic necessities for a small family. It just doesn’t. This right here, I wish I didn’t have to do it. I would love to be worked out of a job. I think that nonprofits are bearing the brunt and bearing the weight of the failures of our social services system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Well, Heather, thank you so much for making the time to chat with me. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Around the Bay Area, where more than 644,000 people receive SNAP benefits, households like Staples’ found themselves planning how they’d cope with not having enough money for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staples, who lives in San Rafael and previously “worked in Big Tech and startups,” lost her job at the same time while she was pregnant with her second child, now 6 months old. While her husband still works as a teacher and musician, Staples describes her family as feeling like part of a “broken middle” — and CalFresh has allowed them to keep accessing fresh, nutritious food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown\">use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s contingency fund\u003c/a> to provide SNAP payments in November, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062530/judges-order-the-trump-administration-to-use-contingency-funds-for-snap-payments-during-the-shutdown\">two federal judges ruled Friday\u003c/a> that the administration must continue to fund food benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the White House warned that payments would only be half of people’s regular benefits, and there could still be lengthy delays before EBT cards are reloaded, the administration said. And on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/us/trump-shutdown-news#cities-nonprofits-food-stamp-snap-payments\">Trump threatened to once again withhold SNAP payments\u003c/a> entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh benefits are paid to recipients over the first 10 days of the month, and Staples’ family was meant to receive theirs on the first. For Staples, the imminent impact on the holidays is something she’s already “grieving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with white hair and a warm coat picks through a huge box of ears of corn in a paved outdoor area where lots of other people are also circulating.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers distribute food items at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m still working through that, I guess, if I’m being honest,” she said. “Because I was excited about having a beautiful Thanksgiving … and I just don’t know now. That uncertainty is obviously really stressful, and I’m figuring out what I’m going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staples said her family will use the services of nearby food banks, but “it’s the worst timing,” she said — not least because her 6-month-old child just began to eat solids a week ago. “I’ve been breastfeeding, but now I’m buying for another child,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tough times are temporary, and that’s what I’m believing in,” Staples said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Using as little as I can’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly 5.5 million Californians use CalFresh, according to June data from the state — including 2 million children. In the Bay Area, the highest share of SNAP recipients lives in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be eligible for CalFresh, households must usually have a total gross monthly income less than or equal to 200% of the federal poverty level. For a family of four,\u003ca href=\"https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/dd73d4f00d8a819d10b2fdb70d254f7b/detailed-guidelines-2025.pdf\"> that means a household income of $64,300 or less.\u003c/a> A person living alone must earn $31,300 or less to qualify for CalFresh.[aside postID=news_12062018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty1.jpg']Many SNAP recipients describe difficulties securing the food they need that existed even before the November delays were announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired teacher January Handl, who lives in Glen Ellen, received CalFresh benefits of $200 a month before the delays hit. “But if my Social Security goes up with cost of living, they bring my CalFresh down,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with her regular CalFresh funds, Handl describes a constant state of vigilance over prices and stretching a household budget. Most people on SNAP “are really careful with our food budgets,” she said. “We have to be, right? So we do buy in bulk. We do buy on sale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5539547/grocery-prices-tariffs-food-inflation\">ever-rising grocery prices\u003c/a>, certain foods are rationed or off-limits for Handl. “I mean, forget eggs,” she said. “That used to be a cheap source of protein for me.” Coffee, as well, is “a luxury now” for Handl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley transfer student LisaMarie Fusco, who is disabled, described herself as “broken-hearted” by the SNAP delays. Fusco already relies on home deliveries from the Berkeley Food Network. “I’m so amazed they do deliveries,” she said in praise of the food bank’s services. “My goal is to get through this somehow, with leaning on the Berkeley Food Network.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “the food stamp administration has been such a problem for me,” said Fusco, who described having “no access” to her online SNAP account for years due to technical issues in the system. “They don’t make it easy for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Helen Tran has been waiting for her CalFresh benefits to resume ever since she recertified her eligibility back in August \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> and was counting on SNAP backpayments from this period finally coming through in November. Having been told “about a month ago” that funds would soon appear on her EBT card, “then they said every time they try to process it, there would be an error, and they weren’t sure what the error was,” Tran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her mother — who also uses SNAP — had a stroke in June, Tran quit work to care for her. With Tran in San Francisco and her mother in Oakland, “my money is going towards gas a lot more than it is anything else,” she said — and given her longstanding CalFresh payment delays, “I’m basically paying everything out of pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran is nervous that with her administrative issues, she won’t receive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062034/san-francisco-will-cover-full-snap-benefits-for-november-amid-federal-shutdown\">the grocery cards that San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has promised\u003c/a> the city’s SNAP recipients this month — and the closest food pantries to her all have waitlists, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SOLANO-FREE-FOOD-01-KQED-1_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie DeNicholas inspects food donations at the Food is Free Solano facility at the Solano County Fairgrounds on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So with three children of her own to feed, Tran said she’ll keep borrowing money from her siblings to make it through this period, “saving as much as I can by using as little as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With our culture, the older siblings are supposed to be the ones to take care of the younger siblings,” she said. “I feel bad and a little embarrassed that I have to ask my sister for help. But at this time, anything helps at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re eating for survival’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shantesha Fluker’s plan to get her family through November’s SNAP delays involves “buying foods that can stretch” —“a lot of beans and rice, a lot of spaghetti without meat,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fluker, a West Oakland community advocate with two children, had to leave her job recently for medical reasons. And while she’s “pretty sure” her children are aware of this month’s lack of SNAP funds from social media, Fluker said she didn’t want it to impact them.[aside postID=news_12062743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-03-BL-KQED.jpg']“I’m going to try to do my best to make sure that … it isn’t such a difference for them,” she said. “That means also utilizing local area food banks and just being creative with the way that we cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have to eat beans and rice and cornbread for three days, that’s what we’re going to have to do — or don’t eat,” she said. “We’re eating for survival, not necessarily for, you know, the taste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SNAP recipients are already working out the other sacrifices they’ll make this month to be able to eat. Fluker anticipates she won’t be able to pay her cellphone bill. Handl plans to keep the heating off in her home, “because PG&E here is so expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wear sweaters and pile up the blankets, because that’s one way we can save a little bit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley student Fusco plans to take out an emergency loan to cover her food expenses this month — a situation she feels is especially unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I shouldn’t have to be taking out a damn loan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">the Bay Area’s food banks\u003c/a> have already become a lifeline for many during the shutdown, these places can’t answer every specific nutritional need — especially for those with medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fluker’s adult child is diabetic, “so obviously with that, I have to cook differently in a more healthy manner … the type of foods that I have to prepare for her are a little bit more expensive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handl also requires a specific diet due to her autoimmune issues — and using food banks is “not the same as getting to shop for what you eat,” she said. And while she appreciates the lack of judgment for being on SNAP, she’s felt that when using food banks in the past, “I won’t necessarily get the food that I need for my specialized diet,” Handl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Look out for one another’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Rafael’s Staples said the anxiety and stigma SNAP users often feel can seem particularly acute in the Bay Area, with its high cost of living — and stark income inequality between CalFresh recipients and the highest earners in their region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a month of feeling uncomfortable shopping at the farmers market with my [EBT] tokens and feeling judged, even though probably no one saw anything of it,” she said. “This is Marin County. There’s a lot of that floating around; it’s like this unspoken level hierarchy of who can afford what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmark Bernante (left) and Megan Feria sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Handl, who remembers weeping the first time she applied for SNAP, said she now wants to talk publicly about being a CalFresh recipient to raise awareness of just how widespread its usage is around the state. “To me, it’s trying to use my white privilege to get people to realize that the people on SNAP aren’t trying to cheat anybody out of anything,” she said. “They’re not lazy. They’re often working one to two full-time jobs, and it’s not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to shake people and say, ‘Any one of us can be disabled in a moment’ … ‘Any one of us can be bankrupted with medical fees,’” she said. “We more live on the edge than we realize,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fluker also hears stereotypes about people on SNAP benefits, many of them directed at Black and brown people — like assumptions that “we buy a lot of processed foods and a lot of junk foods with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “I frequent the stores just as much as other members in my community,” Fluker said. “We try to cook as best as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What keeps me going is knowing that there are other people doing it with me,” Fusco, the Cal student, said. “It does help having a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment Fluker echoed. “It’s stressful,” she said. “But we, as a people, we just have to go through the motions and look out for one another — and do the best that we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staples, who lives in San Rafael and previously “worked in Big Tech and startups,” lost her job at the same time while she was pregnant with her second child, now 6 months old. While her husband still works as a teacher and musician, Staples describes her family as feeling like part of a “broken middle” — and CalFresh has allowed them to keep accessing fresh, nutritious food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown\">use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s contingency fund\u003c/a> to provide SNAP payments in November, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062530/judges-order-the-trump-administration-to-use-contingency-funds-for-snap-payments-during-the-shutdown\">two federal judges ruled Friday\u003c/a> that the administration must continue to fund food benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the White House warned that payments would only be half of people’s regular benefits, and there could still be lengthy delays before EBT cards are reloaded, the administration said. And on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/us/trump-shutdown-news#cities-nonprofits-food-stamp-snap-payments\">Trump threatened to once again withhold SNAP payments\u003c/a> entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFresh benefits are paid to recipients over the first 10 days of the month, and Staples’ family was meant to receive theirs on the first. For Staples, the imminent impact on the holidays is something she’s already “grieving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with white hair and a warm coat picks through a huge box of ears of corn in a paved outdoor area where lots of other people are also circulating.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66300_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers distribute food items at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m still working through that, I guess, if I’m being honest,” she said. “Because I was excited about having a beautiful Thanksgiving … and I just don’t know now. That uncertainty is obviously really stressful, and I’m figuring out what I’m going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staples said her family will use the services of nearby food banks, but “it’s the worst timing,” she said — not least because her 6-month-old child just began to eat solids a week ago. “I’ve been breastfeeding, but now I’m buying for another child,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tough times are temporary, and that’s what I’m believing in,” Staples said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Using as little as I can’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly 5.5 million Californians use CalFresh, according to June data from the state — including 2 million children. In the Bay Area, the highest share of SNAP recipients lives in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be eligible for CalFresh, households must usually have a total gross monthly income less than or equal to 200% of the federal poverty level. For a family of four,\u003ca href=\"https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/dd73d4f00d8a819d10b2fdb70d254f7b/detailed-guidelines-2025.pdf\"> that means a household income of $64,300 or less.\u003c/a> A person living alone must earn $31,300 or less to qualify for CalFresh.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is bracing for federal food assistance to run out this weekend, even as federal judges rule that the Trump administration must continue to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the ongoing federal shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062530/judges-order-the-trump-administration-to-use-contingency-funds-for-snap-payments-during-the-shutdown\">judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ordered\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday to use contingency funding to continue paying for SNAP benefits in November, it’s unclear how quickly the department will respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rulings, which offer the Trump administration leeway to only partially cover the program’s average $8 billion monthly cost, could also be met with legal challenges, local officials warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know if [Trump] going to comply, we don’t if he is going to appeal, so what we can control in California is making sure that our food banks are strong and that no matter what the federal government does, that our food banks are able to provide food to folks in our community,” state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said Friday. “That’s what we can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state, food banks are expecting demand to surge ahead of the looming deadline. To help meet need, counties across the Bay have directed additional resources to food banks and found funding alternatives to absorb at least part of the impending hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Wednesday that the city plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062034/san-francisco-will-cover-full-snap-benefits-for-november-amid-federal-shutdown\">cover $18 million in CalFresh benefits\u003c/a> in November, thanks to a public-private partnership with Crankstart, the family foundation of venture capitalist Michael Moritz and writer Harriet Heyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmark Bernante (left) and Megan Feria sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While that funding will likely fall short of the full cost of covering the 112,000 city residents’ monthly allowances, other community organizations are also stepping up. The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sffamilyservicesalliance.org/\">Family Services Alliance\u003c/a> and nonprofit Safe and Sound have announced a fund to help families losing access to SNAP and another federal supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also significantly more robust than what counties elsewhere in the Bay Area have been able to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so grateful that here in San Francisco, 112,000 CalFresh recipients are going to have benefits,” said Tanis Crosby, executive director of San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.[aside postID=news_12062034 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED.jpg']“That’s not the same in every county in the Bay Area, and that’s certainly not the same across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has approved about \u003ca href=\"https://simon.house.gov/media/in-the-news/berkeleyside-alameda-county-will-invest-10m-food-assistance-programs\">$10 million in emergency funding\u003c/a> for local food banks and food assistance programs, about $1.7 million of which will directly fund meals for seniors. More than $8 million will go to Alameda County Community Food Bank, which expects that an additional 13,000 to 19,000 people could begin seeking food assistance daily come November, on top of the 60,000 they usually serve, according to communications director Michael Altfest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas announced Friday that the county had also raised an additional $1.5 million for an emergency food program to support food banks and smaller, community-based organizations. The funding was provided by Crankstart and Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eatlearnplay.org/\">Eat, Learn, Play\u003c/a> Foundation, along with contributions from Bas’s office and from the office of Alysse Castro, Alameda County’s Superintendent of Schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, even with the contributions, the county isn’t able to cover the total benefits Alameda County residents receive each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every one meal the food bank provides, SNAP generally provides nine,” said Lee, who said she relied on CalFresh benefits while raising her two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We usually think of food insecurity, famine in other countries. Here we are in this country, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, talking about how we mobilize to feed people,” she continued. “Shame and disgrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/county-santa-clara-takes-action-support-calfresh-beneficiaries-during-federal-government-shutdown\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> announced Thursday that it would provide $4.5 million to support food aid programs in the county — offsetting just a fraction of the more than $25 million its 30,000 CalFresh recipients receive each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, county supervisors are expected to vote next week on a plan to allocate $800,000 in emergency funding to provide direct food assistance to their 15,500 CalFresh recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby said traffic on San Francisco-Marin Food Bank’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food/\">online food finder\u003c/a>, which helps people locate food pantries and assistance, has increased 250% in recent days. She expects the organization’s waitlist, which is already 8,000 people long, to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener sorts fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Food insecurity is higher now than at the height of the pandemic,” she said. “That’s why it’s all hands on deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working so hard with our partners to boost capacity right now,” she continued. “We are activating and mobilizing and calling on our community to volunteer and join with us, because we want to double [our home delivered grocery] program in the days ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants across the Bay Area have announced that they will offer free and discounted meals to CalFresh recipients, and California is sending National Guard personnel to aid food banks throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has also ordered that $80 million in emergency funding allocated for food assistance in this year’s state budget be expedited to reimburse organizations’ additional costs as they increase supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crosby said even when the federal shutdown comes to an end, the current scramble to keep food on hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents’ tables will likely continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are cuts to SNAP that have already been approved,” she said, referring to\u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/snap-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-leave-almost-3-million-young-adults-vulnerable\"> changes in SNAP’s benefit levels\u003c/a> and work requirements included in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill this summer. Those changes are set to take effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program will be dismantled in the months and years ahead,” she continued. “What’s happening right now is a foreshadowing, a foreshadowing of the hurt that will happen without action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“That’s not the same in every county in the Bay Area, and that’s certainly not the same across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has approved about \u003ca href=\"https://simon.house.gov/media/in-the-news/berkeleyside-alameda-county-will-invest-10m-food-assistance-programs\">$10 million in emergency funding\u003c/a> for local food banks and food assistance programs, about $1.7 million of which will directly fund meals for seniors. More than $8 million will go to Alameda County Community Food Bank, which expects that an additional 13,000 to 19,000 people could begin seeking food assistance daily come November, on top of the 60,000 they usually serve, according to communications director Michael Altfest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas announced Friday that the county had also raised an additional $1.5 million for an emergency food program to support food banks and smaller, community-based organizations. The funding was provided by Crankstart and Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eatlearnplay.org/\">Eat, Learn, Play\u003c/a> Foundation, along with contributions from Bas’s office and from the office of Alysse Castro, Alameda County’s Superintendent of Schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, even with the contributions, the county isn’t able to cover the total benefits Alameda County residents receive each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every one meal the food bank provides, SNAP generally provides nine,” said Lee, who said she relied on CalFresh benefits while raising her two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We usually think of food insecurity, famine in other countries. Here we are in this country, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, talking about how we mobilize to feed people,” she continued. “Shame and disgrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/county-santa-clara-takes-action-support-calfresh-beneficiaries-during-federal-government-shutdown\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> announced Thursday that it would provide $4.5 million to support food aid programs in the county — offsetting just a fraction of the more than $25 million its 30,000 CalFresh recipients receive each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, county supervisors are expected to vote next week on a plan to allocate $800,000 in emergency funding to provide direct food assistance to their 15,500 CalFresh recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby said traffic on San Francisco-Marin Food Bank’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food/\">online food finder\u003c/a>, which helps people locate food pantries and assistance, has increased 250% in recent days. She expects the organization’s waitlist, which is already 8,000 people long, to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener sorts fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Food insecurity is higher now than at the height of the pandemic,” she said. “That’s why it’s all hands on deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working so hard with our partners to boost capacity right now,” she continued. “We are activating and mobilizing and calling on our community to volunteer and join with us, because we want to double [our home delivered grocery] program in the days ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants across the Bay Area have announced that they will offer free and discounted meals to CalFresh recipients, and California is sending National Guard personnel to aid food banks throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has also ordered that $80 million in emergency funding allocated for food assistance in this year’s state budget be expedited to reimburse organizations’ additional costs as they increase supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crosby said even when the federal shutdown comes to an end, the current scramble to keep food on hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents’ tables will likely continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are cuts to SNAP that have already been approved,” she said, referring to\u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/snap-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-leave-almost-3-million-young-adults-vulnerable\"> changes in SNAP’s benefit levels\u003c/a> and work requirements included in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill this summer. Those changes are set to take effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program will be dismantled in the months and years ahead,” she continued. “What’s happening right now is a foreshadowing, a foreshadowing of the hurt that will happen without action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In this October edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, we discuss the impact of the federal government shutdown on hunger in the Bay Area, and how local governments are responding. We also discuss Uber’s plans to enter the driverless vehicle market, and how the California condor is making a comeback after near-extinction. \u003cspan data-slate-fragment=\"JTVCJTdCJTIydHlwZSUyMiUzQSUyMnBhcmFncmFwaCUyMiUyQyUyMmNoaWxkcmVuJTIyJTNBJTVCJTdCJTIydGV4dCUyMiUzQSUyMlBsdXMlMkMlMjB3ZSUyMHBheSUyMHRyaWJ1dGUlMjB0byUyMEtRRUQlMjB0cmFuc3BvcnRhdGlvbiUyMGVkaXRvciUyMERhbiUyMEJyZWtrZSUyQyUyMHdobyUyMGlzJTIwcmV0aXJpbmclMjBhZnRlciUyMG5lYXJseSUyMDUwJTIweWVhcnMlMjBpbiUyMEJheSUyMEFyZWElMjBqb3VybmFsaXNtLiUyMiU3RCU1RCU3RCU1RA==\">Plus, we pay tribute to KQED transportation editor Dan Brekke, who is retiring after nearly 50 years in Bay Area journalism.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5978954594\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/10/29/contra-costa-food-bank-calfresh-snap-benefit-cuts/\">Contra Costa County plans to give CalFresh recipients food money if SNAP is paused\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062034/san-francisco-will-cover-full-snap-benefits-for-november-amid-federal-shutdown\">San Francisco Will Cover SNAP Benefits for November Amid Federal Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">With SNAP Benefits Delayed, Restaurants Step Up to Feed Bay Area Families\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/news/808743/uber-lucid-nuro-robotaxi-san-francisco-2026\">Uber will challenge Waymo’s robotaxi dominance in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/for-a-century-they-were-gone-but-california-condors-are-making-a-comeback-in-these-parts-of-the-bay-area/?campaign=sjmnbreakingnews&utm_email=A4A5B403457285D525DA14E7D1&active=no&lctg=A4A5B403457285D525DA14E7D1\">For a century, they were gone. But California condors are making a comeback in these parts of the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:02] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay local news to keep you rooted and welcome to our October news roundup. I’m joined today by The Bay senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:14] Hey, good morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:15] And our very, very special guest this month, transportation editor Dan Brekke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:00:22] Hi Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:23] Hi! Happy Halloween!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:00:26] Is it Halloween already? Oh yeah, it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:28] Yeah, spooky season. Actually, we wanted to have you on as our guest for this month because you are retiring. And I want to take it back a little bit because I feel like for longtime listeners of The Bay, they’re probably familiar with you, but maybe not so much of your backstory. Can you talk a little about how long you’ve been a reporter here in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:00:52] In the Bay Area, I’ve been doing some media or other since about 1980. And I am going to include the Daily Cal. Daily Cal, of course, is the student newspaper at UC Berkeley. And before that, I had been lucky enough to actually get a newsroom job in Chicago, my hometown, right out of high school. And so I was impressionable. And the impression that the newsroom laid down on me was this is a really fun thing to do. You wanna keep coming back and doing this. And here we are today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:27] 50 years later. Yeah on your last day at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:32] Listeners of the show know you for your knowledge of transportation, especially public transit. Have you been covering transit this whole time or how did your passion for transit begin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] It’s always been present in my life. I grew up in the suburbs mostly in Chicago, a town called Park Forest. Even out there in the suburb, we had a bus line, South Suburban Safeway Lines, and I believe that it cost us a nickel. And that first job I had that I was talking about, I got to commute all the way to the other end in downtown Chicago. I mean, I thought that was the greatest thing ever, that you didn’t have to drive. And you could sleep. And then it just kind of grew from there. First time I came out to the Bay Area in 1973 was on Amtrak, you know, landed at the 16th Street Station in West Oakland, and that was really cool. And yeah, so the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:31] So, I mean, you’ve covered the Bay Area for a long time. Are there any Bay Area stories you’ve covered that really stand out to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:02:39] Two of the epic occurrences in the Bay Area during my career, one was the earthquake in 1989, which was a terribly traumatic incident. And then just two years later, almost to the day, there was a terrible fire in the Oakland Hills. And yeah, if you worked in a daily newsroom, as I did then, I was at the San Francisco Examiner with a bunch of really good people. You find yourself right in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Wow, I mean, it’s incredible to think about all the stories you’ve witnessed and lived through in the Bay Area in the last 50 years as a journalist. Dan and I, just to transition, imagine you’ve probably seen many a government shutdown in your lifetime as well. Of course, it’s been almost a month now since the government shutdown first began, and Alan, I want to stick with you and the shutdown impacts. You’re bringing a story today about the end of the month, and that means SNAP recipients won’t be getting any money next month as a result of the shutdown, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] Yeah, I mean, I feel like, at least in my life, this is all anyone’s talking about. This episode comes out a day before SNAP benefits are supposed to begin being dispersed for the month of November. But roughly 5.5 million Californians, about 42 million residents in the U.S. are set to not receive those benefits for actually the first time in the program’s history. So this is really, I mean, this is really code red in terms of food insecurity, in terms of people just struggling to get by. We’ve seen huge spikes in demand at food banks, lots of efforts to sort of help and fill in the gaps, but there’s really no substitute for the federal government with a program like SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:04:27] There are visible signs of this in either people’s lives or out on the street. In Berkeley, we live around the corner from a food pantry. And there was a long line outside there yesterday. And so, I mean, that’s one sign. We know that there’s a record demand for a lot of food banks. And this is another sign of that. And I’ll also say, just on a personal level, we have a family member who sent us a text. And he and his family are dependent on SNAP, and his message to us a couple days ago was, we’re effed, and people are afraid. And then there’s some efforts on the local government front, which have far fewer resources of course than the federal government, to try to answer the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:13] That’s right. We are seeing efforts from local businesses, local governments, KQED and other news outlets have stories up listing the many restaurants that have volunteered to provide either free or discounted meals to the public. And then in terms of local government, San Francisco is actually going to cover the cost of SNAP benefits for. San Francisco residents only, for the month of November. Costs about $18 million, half of that coming from city money, half of it coming from private foundation money. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has approved about 10 million extra dollars for the Alamedo County Community Food Bank. But, you know, I think everyone’s scrambling here and trying to do what they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Yeah, I mean, as you said, there’s no real replacement to these benefits at the federal level, but it seems like some stuff is happening locally. And I know Contra Costa County is also planning to give CalFresh recipients some food money if SNAP is paused as well. But I mean is there any sort of relief in sight at the dederal level for SNAP recipients?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:23] Well, the most straightforward way is for the shutdown to end. As of this taping, there is no indication that that is going to happen soon. There is currently a lawsuit. I mean, even as we’re taping this, there is a hearing in the US District Court in Boston. About two dozen states have sued the Trump administration, accusing them essentially of illegally withholding funds for SNAP in November. There is about $5 billion in contingency funds that the USDA has. Basically, these states are saying you can and should spend this money. The Trump administration actually originally said they would use these funds for the continuation of SNAP, but now says they can only be used for natural disasters. So that hearing is happening as we’re taping this, and obviously it’s coming down to the wire here with November 1st coming very, very soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] Well, I’m sure many people will be watching what happens with that very closely. Thanks so much for bringing that story, Alan. And we’re gonna take a quick break, but when we come back, we’re going to get into the stories that Dan and I have been following this month. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] Welcome back to the Bay’s October News Roundup, where we talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. And we’re gonna turn to you and your story now, Dan, which is about robo-taxis and driverless cars, which I feel like we’ve talked a lot about here on the show, but your story is about even more driverless vehicles coming to the bay area potentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:08:01] You know, if you are in the KQED neighborhood anytime soon, any day of the week, you see a lot of these things, right? Waymo is going around the block, it seems like, all the time. But Uber and a couple of other companies announced that they are going to bring sort of a Uber-branded robotaxi to the San Francisco Bay Area. There’s a lot that’s not known about this, but we know who the partners are. It’s a company called Neuro. Which is down on the peninsula, and the other company is Lucid, and Lucid may not be a really familiar name, but we’ve seen their cars on the streets. They are kind of cool-looking electric cars, and Uber has a deal with them to deliver as many as 20,000 new vehicles, which will have this driving system, autonomous driving system from Neuro. And put them on the street in various markets. And we know that their plan first is to come to the San Francisco Bay Area. We don’t know exactly where yet, but that’ll come out probably over the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:10] Uber has talked about robotaxis forever through multiple CEOs. This has been a dream of theirs, of the companies to have robotaxis and tech giants make pronouncements all the time. We’re going to do this. We’re gonna shake things up. We’re to change everything. So why is this announcement significant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] Well, I think there are a couple of reasons. I think one, it shows that the technology has matured to the point where it could actually be adopted on a much wider basis than it has in the past. When Uber is starting to talk about putting 20,000 cars on the street and Waymo is always talking about expanding, and they are expanding, throughout the United States, I mean, these are all demonstrations that this is becoming a much more widely adopted thing that customers are ready for. But the other thing is it raises a lot of questions about what’s happening to the Uber and Lyft drivers, the humans who have joined this workforce by the hundreds of thousands. There’s an estimate that there are 800,000 Uber and lyft drivers in California. What happens to them? And most of these people are doing gig work to fill in sort of a mosaic of employment. Roles that they have that they’re really depending on. To me, those are sort of the major issues that are raised by the increasingly rapid adoption of autonomous taxi services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:39] So what has to happen before these Uber-Robo taxis can hit the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:10:44] It may be a year or two before this actually is in business. They have all sorts of regulatory stuff to get passed first, right? The DMV actually has to look at the vehicle. They have to look the driving system and they have to sort of assign what they call an operational design domain. These are the areas that a company is actually allowed to operate within. So, you know, this venture by Uber we’ll still need to get you know, that kind of clearance before they can move on and then get permission to carry paying passengers in a driverless vehicle from the California Public Utilities Commission. Those approvals can take time, but the technology has matured and that there’s more market acceptance is one level of importance. And I also think that this is pointing the way toward the future of transportation in cities. We’ll see many, many more autonomous vehicles on the street over the next 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:47] Well, Dan, thank you so much for bringing that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:11:49] You’re welcome, my pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] And we’ll finish up with my story about the comeback of the California condor, which is sort of a spooky Halloween-y resurrection story, if you will. After facing near extinction, the California Condor is making a comeback in the Bay Area. These birds are really important to the ecosystem. You know, they’re the ones who pick at dead carcasses and clean up the streets of-\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:12:30] They’re scavenger birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:32] It is gross, but it’s important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:34] And about a century ago, the proliferation of poisons for wolves and grizzly bears and other predators by sort of early pioneers led to higher death rates among these condors, who would eat these dead carcasses that were filled with poison. Have any of you seen what these birds look like, by the way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] I’ve seen them in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:59] Really? Yeah. That’s very rare, I hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:13:02] Well, maybe the best place to see them, relatively close to the Bay Area, is Pinnacles National Park, which is about 100 miles straight south of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] But you gotta be pretty up there to see them, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:13:14] Well, yes and no. I mean, the one time I saw them there, I was, we visited and we were in the parking lot and there were six really big birds circling slowly, slowly, slowly going up into the air. And they are pretty, as you described them, sort of Halloweeny, kind of spooky looking birds. You have this naked pink head and a big kind of ugly hook beak and… You’re really seeing a very old piece of history when you see these things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:45] I have not seen the California condor, Ericka, can you explain why they’re coming back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:52] Yes, so I mean these are very, very rare birds to catch a glimpse of nowadays and they haven’t been seen in the Bay Area for more than a century now, but an effort to bring them back seems to have been working. There is a group called the Ventana Wildlife Society based in Monterey and they focus on trapping and breeding. And rehabbing these condors for release. So far, the Ventana Wildlife Society has tracked 30 different condors that took multiple trips to parts of Alameda and Contra Costa County in the last two years. And I mean, these are the first sort of movements of these condor in the Bay Area documented in over 100 years, if you can believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] How does one rehab condors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:47] It’s really hard to do, actually, because these condors reproduce notoriously slow compared to other animals, actually. One condor will lay a single egg roughly every two years, and then they spend a year hatching and raising that chick before hatching another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] You know, this is one of the great come back stories, as you’ve said. I mean, there were, I mean I’ve heard different numbers, but there were about 17 condors left in the wild in the 1980s and they were brought in. They were all captured and brought in and subject to a captive breeding program. And now we have about 400 that are free flying. That Ventana group you talked about, they’ve been releasing condors and managing condors down there along the Big Sur coast. Sometimes I’ve heard, I haven’t seen this, you’re driving down highway one and there’ll be a condor sitting on the guard rail looking at you. Anyway, just the fact that they survived and the fact they’re still very, very fragile I think makes this a really cool story that they’ve made it back here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:56] And it definitely is a challenge keeping them alive. And while their return to the Bay is, I mean, really exciting because it hasn’t happened for so long, biologists believe that until their population grows substantially bigger, their work is really cut out for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:16:13] You know, one of the threats to them ongoing has been the presence of lead in the environment. And one of sources of lead is a shot that hunters use. So there’s been an effort to sort of replace lead ammunition and shot with steel or copper. And so places like the Ventana Society are, they actually, you know, try to give them a smorgasbord to pick apart, instead of let them go out and. And get into a carcass that might be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] I will say, I just found out actually this morning that the Ventana Society has live camera, did you know this Dan? They have live streamed cameras of condors eating the dead carcasses of baby calves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:17:03] Yes, they’re being fed, right, you know, the circle of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:11] Well, I guess if you need anything to watch this Halloween, check out that live stream. That’s it for my story and that’s also it for this edition of the Bay’s Monthly News Roundup. Before we let you go, Dan, any retirement plans for you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:17:32] Well, you know, I’m not sure journalists can ever retire. So I feel like I’m going to still be involved in journalism in some way. And because I’m a transportation editor, I’m gonna be using modes of transportation to travel. We’ll see where, maybe up to the Sierra right soon. I’m go to visit the Dallas area for Thanksgiving and then maybe, you now, visit these islands I’ve heard are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of 50th state, I think, and maybe we’ll see what’s happening out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:06] I went back and counted the number of times you were on the bay. I did not ask AI for this, I went and checked. And I believe this is your 21st appearance on the Bay. I don’t know if that’s the most appearances, it’s got to be in the top three. And I know how much you hate receiving direct praise on mic, but we’ve so appreciated your work with us. Every time you come on, we always learn so much. And I know our listeners appreciate it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:18:31] Well, you know, 21 is a great number in Las Vegas, okay, I’ll say that, and for my part, I’ll just say that I really appreciate how seriously you’ve taken the mission of serving our audience and really getting into aspects of stories that sometimes we can’t tell as completely as we want to. And I absolutely love the way you can turn sometimes a halting account of something from somebody like me into something that sounds like such good radio, and you’re also really nice folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:13] Well, our show is nothing without reporters like you, Dan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:02] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay local news to keep you rooted and welcome to our October news roundup. I’m joined today by The Bay senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:14] Hey, good morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:15] And our very, very special guest this month, transportation editor Dan Brekke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:00:22] Hi Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:23] Hi! Happy Halloween!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:00:26] Is it Halloween already? Oh yeah, it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:28] Yeah, spooky season. Actually, we wanted to have you on as our guest for this month because you are retiring. And I want to take it back a little bit because I feel like for longtime listeners of The Bay, they’re probably familiar with you, but maybe not so much of your backstory. Can you talk a little about how long you’ve been a reporter here in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:00:52] In the Bay Area, I’ve been doing some media or other since about 1980. And I am going to include the Daily Cal. Daily Cal, of course, is the student newspaper at UC Berkeley. And before that, I had been lucky enough to actually get a newsroom job in Chicago, my hometown, right out of high school. And so I was impressionable. And the impression that the newsroom laid down on me was this is a really fun thing to do. You wanna keep coming back and doing this. And here we are today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:27] 50 years later. Yeah on your last day at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:32] Listeners of the show know you for your knowledge of transportation, especially public transit. Have you been covering transit this whole time or how did your passion for transit begin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:01:42] It’s always been present in my life. I grew up in the suburbs mostly in Chicago, a town called Park Forest. Even out there in the suburb, we had a bus line, South Suburban Safeway Lines, and I believe that it cost us a nickel. And that first job I had that I was talking about, I got to commute all the way to the other end in downtown Chicago. I mean, I thought that was the greatest thing ever, that you didn’t have to drive. And you could sleep. And then it just kind of grew from there. First time I came out to the Bay Area in 1973 was on Amtrak, you know, landed at the 16th Street Station in West Oakland, and that was really cool. And yeah, so the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:31] So, I mean, you’ve covered the Bay Area for a long time. Are there any Bay Area stories you’ve covered that really stand out to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:02:39] Two of the epic occurrences in the Bay Area during my career, one was the earthquake in 1989, which was a terribly traumatic incident. And then just two years later, almost to the day, there was a terrible fire in the Oakland Hills. And yeah, if you worked in a daily newsroom, as I did then, I was at the San Francisco Examiner with a bunch of really good people. You find yourself right in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Wow, I mean, it’s incredible to think about all the stories you’ve witnessed and lived through in the Bay Area in the last 50 years as a journalist. Dan and I, just to transition, imagine you’ve probably seen many a government shutdown in your lifetime as well. Of course, it’s been almost a month now since the government shutdown first began, and Alan, I want to stick with you and the shutdown impacts. You’re bringing a story today about the end of the month, and that means SNAP recipients won’t be getting any money next month as a result of the shutdown, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] Yeah, I mean, I feel like, at least in my life, this is all anyone’s talking about. This episode comes out a day before SNAP benefits are supposed to begin being dispersed for the month of November. But roughly 5.5 million Californians, about 42 million residents in the U.S. are set to not receive those benefits for actually the first time in the program’s history. So this is really, I mean, this is really code red in terms of food insecurity, in terms of people just struggling to get by. We’ve seen huge spikes in demand at food banks, lots of efforts to sort of help and fill in the gaps, but there’s really no substitute for the federal government with a program like SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:04:27] There are visible signs of this in either people’s lives or out on the street. In Berkeley, we live around the corner from a food pantry. And there was a long line outside there yesterday. And so, I mean, that’s one sign. We know that there’s a record demand for a lot of food banks. And this is another sign of that. And I’ll also say, just on a personal level, we have a family member who sent us a text. And he and his family are dependent on SNAP, and his message to us a couple days ago was, we’re effed, and people are afraid. And then there’s some efforts on the local government front, which have far fewer resources of course than the federal government, to try to answer the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:13] That’s right. We are seeing efforts from local businesses, local governments, KQED and other news outlets have stories up listing the many restaurants that have volunteered to provide either free or discounted meals to the public. And then in terms of local government, San Francisco is actually going to cover the cost of SNAP benefits for. San Francisco residents only, for the month of November. Costs about $18 million, half of that coming from city money, half of it coming from private foundation money. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has approved about 10 million extra dollars for the Alamedo County Community Food Bank. But, you know, I think everyone’s scrambling here and trying to do what they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Yeah, I mean, as you said, there’s no real replacement to these benefits at the federal level, but it seems like some stuff is happening locally. And I know Contra Costa County is also planning to give CalFresh recipients some food money if SNAP is paused as well. But I mean is there any sort of relief in sight at the dederal level for SNAP recipients?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:23] Well, the most straightforward way is for the shutdown to end. As of this taping, there is no indication that that is going to happen soon. There is currently a lawsuit. I mean, even as we’re taping this, there is a hearing in the US District Court in Boston. About two dozen states have sued the Trump administration, accusing them essentially of illegally withholding funds for SNAP in November. There is about $5 billion in contingency funds that the USDA has. Basically, these states are saying you can and should spend this money. The Trump administration actually originally said they would use these funds for the continuation of SNAP, but now says they can only be used for natural disasters. So that hearing is happening as we’re taping this, and obviously it’s coming down to the wire here with November 1st coming very, very soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] Well, I’m sure many people will be watching what happens with that very closely. Thanks so much for bringing that story, Alan. And we’re gonna take a quick break, but when we come back, we’re going to get into the stories that Dan and I have been following this month. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] Welcome back to the Bay’s October News Roundup, where we talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. And we’re gonna turn to you and your story now, Dan, which is about robo-taxis and driverless cars, which I feel like we’ve talked a lot about here on the show, but your story is about even more driverless vehicles coming to the bay area potentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:08:01] You know, if you are in the KQED neighborhood anytime soon, any day of the week, you see a lot of these things, right? Waymo is going around the block, it seems like, all the time. But Uber and a couple of other companies announced that they are going to bring sort of a Uber-branded robotaxi to the San Francisco Bay Area. There’s a lot that’s not known about this, but we know who the partners are. It’s a company called Neuro. Which is down on the peninsula, and the other company is Lucid, and Lucid may not be a really familiar name, but we’ve seen their cars on the streets. They are kind of cool-looking electric cars, and Uber has a deal with them to deliver as many as 20,000 new vehicles, which will have this driving system, autonomous driving system from Neuro. And put them on the street in various markets. And we know that their plan first is to come to the San Francisco Bay Area. We don’t know exactly where yet, but that’ll come out probably over the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:10] Uber has talked about robotaxis forever through multiple CEOs. This has been a dream of theirs, of the companies to have robotaxis and tech giants make pronouncements all the time. We’re going to do this. We’re gonna shake things up. We’re to change everything. So why is this announcement significant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] Well, I think there are a couple of reasons. I think one, it shows that the technology has matured to the point where it could actually be adopted on a much wider basis than it has in the past. When Uber is starting to talk about putting 20,000 cars on the street and Waymo is always talking about expanding, and they are expanding, throughout the United States, I mean, these are all demonstrations that this is becoming a much more widely adopted thing that customers are ready for. But the other thing is it raises a lot of questions about what’s happening to the Uber and Lyft drivers, the humans who have joined this workforce by the hundreds of thousands. There’s an estimate that there are 800,000 Uber and lyft drivers in California. What happens to them? And most of these people are doing gig work to fill in sort of a mosaic of employment. Roles that they have that they’re really depending on. To me, those are sort of the major issues that are raised by the increasingly rapid adoption of autonomous taxi services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:39] So what has to happen before these Uber-Robo taxis can hit the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:10:44] It may be a year or two before this actually is in business. They have all sorts of regulatory stuff to get passed first, right? The DMV actually has to look at the vehicle. They have to look the driving system and they have to sort of assign what they call an operational design domain. These are the areas that a company is actually allowed to operate within. So, you know, this venture by Uber we’ll still need to get you know, that kind of clearance before they can move on and then get permission to carry paying passengers in a driverless vehicle from the California Public Utilities Commission. Those approvals can take time, but the technology has matured and that there’s more market acceptance is one level of importance. And I also think that this is pointing the way toward the future of transportation in cities. We’ll see many, many more autonomous vehicles on the street over the next 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:47] Well, Dan, thank you so much for bringing that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:11:49] You’re welcome, my pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] And we’ll finish up with my story about the comeback of the California condor, which is sort of a spooky Halloween-y resurrection story, if you will. After facing near extinction, the California Condor is making a comeback in the Bay Area. These birds are really important to the ecosystem. You know, they’re the ones who pick at dead carcasses and clean up the streets of-\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:12:30] They’re scavenger birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:32] It is gross, but it’s important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:34] And about a century ago, the proliferation of poisons for wolves and grizzly bears and other predators by sort of early pioneers led to higher death rates among these condors, who would eat these dead carcasses that were filled with poison. Have any of you seen what these birds look like, by the way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] I’ve seen them in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:59] Really? Yeah. That’s very rare, I hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:13:02] Well, maybe the best place to see them, relatively close to the Bay Area, is Pinnacles National Park, which is about 100 miles straight south of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] But you gotta be pretty up there to see them, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:13:14] Well, yes and no. I mean, the one time I saw them there, I was, we visited and we were in the parking lot and there were six really big birds circling slowly, slowly, slowly going up into the air. And they are pretty, as you described them, sort of Halloweeny, kind of spooky looking birds. You have this naked pink head and a big kind of ugly hook beak and… You’re really seeing a very old piece of history when you see these things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:45] I have not seen the California condor, Ericka, can you explain why they’re coming back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:52] Yes, so I mean these are very, very rare birds to catch a glimpse of nowadays and they haven’t been seen in the Bay Area for more than a century now, but an effort to bring them back seems to have been working. There is a group called the Ventana Wildlife Society based in Monterey and they focus on trapping and breeding. And rehabbing these condors for release. So far, the Ventana Wildlife Society has tracked 30 different condors that took multiple trips to parts of Alameda and Contra Costa County in the last two years. And I mean, these are the first sort of movements of these condor in the Bay Area documented in over 100 years, if you can believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] How does one rehab condors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:47] It’s really hard to do, actually, because these condors reproduce notoriously slow compared to other animals, actually. One condor will lay a single egg roughly every two years, and then they spend a year hatching and raising that chick before hatching another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] You know, this is one of the great come back stories, as you’ve said. I mean, there were, I mean I’ve heard different numbers, but there were about 17 condors left in the wild in the 1980s and they were brought in. They were all captured and brought in and subject to a captive breeding program. And now we have about 400 that are free flying. That Ventana group you talked about, they’ve been releasing condors and managing condors down there along the Big Sur coast. Sometimes I’ve heard, I haven’t seen this, you’re driving down highway one and there’ll be a condor sitting on the guard rail looking at you. Anyway, just the fact that they survived and the fact they’re still very, very fragile I think makes this a really cool story that they’ve made it back here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:56] And it definitely is a challenge keeping them alive. And while their return to the Bay is, I mean, really exciting because it hasn’t happened for so long, biologists believe that until their population grows substantially bigger, their work is really cut out for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:16:13] You know, one of the threats to them ongoing has been the presence of lead in the environment. And one of sources of lead is a shot that hunters use. So there’s been an effort to sort of replace lead ammunition and shot with steel or copper. And so places like the Ventana Society are, they actually, you know, try to give them a smorgasbord to pick apart, instead of let them go out and. And get into a carcass that might be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] I will say, I just found out actually this morning that the Ventana Society has live camera, did you know this Dan? They have live streamed cameras of condors eating the dead carcasses of baby calves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:17:03] Yes, they’re being fed, right, you know, the circle of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:11] Well, I guess if you need anything to watch this Halloween, check out that live stream. That’s it for my story and that’s also it for this edition of the Bay’s Monthly News Roundup. Before we let you go, Dan, any retirement plans for you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:17:32] Well, you know, I’m not sure journalists can ever retire. So I feel like I’m going to still be involved in journalism in some way. And because I’m a transportation editor, I’m gonna be using modes of transportation to travel. We’ll see where, maybe up to the Sierra right soon. I’m go to visit the Dallas area for Thanksgiving and then maybe, you now, visit these islands I’ve heard are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of 50th state, I think, and maybe we’ll see what’s happening out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:06] I went back and counted the number of times you were on the bay. I did not ask AI for this, I went and checked. And I believe this is your 21st appearance on the Bay. I don’t know if that’s the most appearances, it’s got to be in the top three. And I know how much you hate receiving direct praise on mic, but we’ve so appreciated your work with us. Every time you come on, we always learn so much. And I know our listeners appreciate it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:18:31] Well, you know, 21 is a great number in Las Vegas, okay, I’ll say that, and for my part, I’ll just say that I really appreciate how seriously you’ve taken the mission of serving our audience and really getting into aspects of stories that sometimes we can’t tell as completely as we want to. And I absolutely love the way you can turn sometimes a halting account of something from somebody like me into something that sounds like such good radio, and you’re also really nice folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:13] Well, our show is nothing without reporters like you, Dan. So, thank you so much for everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Volunteers at the food distribution events often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SNAP benefits are set to lapse nationwide in November for the first time since the program was created in 1964 as the federal government shutdown enters its fifth week. Millions of Californians are expected to miss out on benefits; already, some restaurants around the Bay Area are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">offering free or discounted meals\u003c/a> to affected families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, no end to the shutdown appears to be in sight as Democrats and Republicans remain in a standoff over the 2026 spending plan and discussions over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058393/bay-area-lawmakers-say-gop-to-blame-as-shutdown-threatens-affordable-care-act\">expiring federal health care subsidies\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12062018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty1.jpg']“While the situation in Washington remains uncertain, here in San Francisco, we are taking care of each other,” Lurie said Wednesday. “This city stands with our workers, our kids and our seniors, and we’ll keep doing what it takes to ensure San Franciscans remain safe and healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as San Francisco aims to close the gap, experts say the SNAP suspension could represent a loss of $20 million a month in benefits, meaning more is needed to help low-income families in the city cope with loss of food benefits while keeping up with the cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an exponential amount of need at the moment that isn’t being met with the matched resources,” said Pegah Faed, executive director of Safe and Sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faed’s organization supports \u003ca href=\"https://sffamilyservicesalliance.org/\">an alliance of family services groups\u003c/a> in San Francisco that \u003ca href=\"https://donate.safeandsound.org/campaign/739731/donate\">announced a fund to help families\u003c/a> at risk of losing access to SNAP and the federal supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC. It is considering giving direct cash or vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates from these organizations hope the fund will draw in more donations the same way they saw people pool resources to help families in need during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12061018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1031437072-scaled-e1761153823511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe and Sound joins an alliance of family service groups in San Francisco, announcing a new fund to help families at risk of losing access to SNAP and the federal WIC nutrition program. It is considering offering direct cash assistance or vouchers. \u003ccite>(Rawpixel/iStock / Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faed said it was too soon to announce an initial amount or a fundraising goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The collective awareness of how important this particular moment and time is to support those who are receiving these benefits is at an all-time high,” Faed said. “Everyone is trying to do their part because no child, no individual should have to go a day without knowing where their next meal is coming from.”[aside postID=news_12061005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1457114961-2000x1333.jpg']Lurie’s announcement came a day after the Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved giving $10 million to local food banks and food assistance programs to offer some relief to residents who rely on CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indefinite delay to SNAP benefits could result in 13,000 to 19,000 more people seeking food assistance daily from the Alameda County Community Food Bank, on top of the 60,000 who already rely on it, according to its communications director, Michael Altfest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061030/california-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-as-federal-shutdown-drags-on\">deploying National Guard units\u003c/a> to food banks across the state, where there’s expected to be an influx of clients as more people go without federal support next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Tuesday, the state joined 21 others in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061823/california-sues-trump-administration-over-suspension-of-snap-benefits-during-shutdown\">suing the Trump administration\u003c/a>, seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the suspension of SNAP benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said his office would continue to monitor the federal shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my entire career, and now as mayor, it has never been acceptable to throw up our hands and expect kids, parents and seniors to just figure it out,” he said. “And in this city, we will not stand by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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