Rogers Public Schools Helping Students in Need Amid Loss of SNAP Benefits

Rogers Public Schools helping students in need amid loss of SNAP benefits

Rogers Public Schools provides various resources for food insecure and homeless students, including a food pantry and free breakfast.

Food pantries helping fill SNAP funding gap during shutdown

(COLORADO SPRINGS) —The Trump administration announced it will partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but the funding is insufficient to cover all 600,000 Coloradans who rely on the program. SNAP, which costs about $8 billion each month nationwide, is used by approximately one in eight Americans. The partial funding means that many recipients in Colorado will need to find alternative ways to feed their families. Nat…