{"id":366222,"date":"2025-11-09T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366222\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:58:09","slug":"demand-surges-at-food-banks-due-to-shutdown-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366222\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand surges at food banks due to shutdown \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As SNAP benefits remain in legal limbo and the government shutdown drags on, more North Texans are showing up at local food banks.<\/p>\n<p>In Dallas, The Stewpot, Catholic Charities and the North Texas Food Bank organized a drive-thru Saturday focused specifically on those impacted by the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that people are going without food, particularly those that are SNAP or government employees and we are doing this special distribution just for those folks,\u201d said Brenda Snitzer, Executive Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestewpot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Stewpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The line served 130 households on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Pete Castaneda said he remembers his family once needing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember being a young man, being hungry, wanting food,\u201d Castaneda said. \u201cSo just being here knowing what it\u2019s like to be in that situation in my earlier life, it just makes it that much easier to come out and spend a couple of hours to help the community.<\/p>\n<p>In McKinney, the non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/babybootiesdiaperbank.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baby Booties Diaper Bank<\/a> held its monthly diaper distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Helen Hutton said the turnout was unlike anything they\u2019d seen since COVID. They served 490 families and distributed 24,500 diapers.<\/p>\n<p>Hutton said they were prepared to serve more families, but still ran out of some items early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to see them trying to provide for their families and plan for the holidays and then have thing after thing happen on top of that,\u201d Hutton said.<\/p>\n<p>Hutton has put out an urgent call for donations to help restock before December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing I want the community to understand is that one little person can do a lot of good,\u201d Hutton said. \u201cSo if they think they\u2019re one donation or their one act of kindness isn\u2019t going to do something, it can really make a ripple effect and make a difference in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As SNAP benefits remain in legal limbo and the government shutdown drags on, more North Texans are showing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,6974,174690,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-366222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-snap","11":"tag-squeezed","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115518210273723520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}