A local nonprofit is urging residents to call Wisconsin’s Senators because of cuts to the SNAP program.
Grow It Forward CEO Amber Daugs said in a Facebook post that the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that proposed devastating cuts to SNAP, or Foodshare, including stripping food assistance away from 90,000 Wisconsinites.
Daugs said it would also cost Wisconsin $314 million per year, moving that burden to local taxpayers.
The Grow It Forward CEO continued saying that nearly 700,000 people in Wisconsin and 7,500 people in Manitowoc County rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families, including the many they serve daily.
She is asking residents to contact Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin to share the message and ask them to support the local food programs.
Grow It Forward announced earlier this year that they are getting less from the Emergency Food Assistance Program, which now only allows them to get five boxes of produce a month.
