Starting Saturday, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program—providing today's plastic card equivalent of what used to be called food stamps)—will stop being funded due to the prolonged government shutdown.
According to NPR, this means almost 42 million people using the program for food and nutrition in the U.S. will not have their card balances replenished, the majority of them seniors, people with disabilities, and families with kids, increasing their struggles in facing hunger.
In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see a few local heroes stepping up to try and help and wanted to share them here, with the plan of updating this list as we see more restaurants, businesses, and concerned locals stretch out a helping hand.
Here's what we see so far: