Category: News and Events

Need for food remains at record levels in the region

By: Mike Urban, Reading Eagle Manna on Main Street in Lansdale is a food pantry serving Montgomery County and has seen increases in demand similar to what other organizations are seeing nationally and locally. The nonprofit, which distributes bagged meals

Montgomery County food pantries brace for ‘food insecurity tsunami’ amid end to COVID SNAP benefits

By: Rachel Ravina, The Reporter Pennsylvania’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s, known as SNAP, is no longer providing the emergency allotment benefits tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. The extra food stamps benefit expired at the end of last month, and pantries

Rollbacks to food and health benefits loom in Pennsylvania

By: Katie Meyer, Spotlight PA Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians could lose their health insurance and nearly two million could face more food insecurity in the coming months due to two sweeping rollbacks to pandemic-era federal policies. Advocates see the