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Federal food assistance cuts may strip $69 million locally, including from Second Harvest Food Bank – tell your representatives you do not support this

Proposed federal cuts of more than $200 billion to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CalFresh) will impact 41,000 local residents and strip close to $69 million in local benefits, write Erica Padilla-Chavez, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank, and Dennis Webb, president of the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau. We must act to save these needed resources by writing to local congressional and state representatives and pushing them to act.

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