A battle is looming in Washington about stopgap funding to avoid a government shutdown . Lawmakers recently voted 44-48 against a short-term funding bill that would keep the government operating after Tuesday — the end of the federal fiscal year and the end of the funding nationally for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program nutrition education program known as SNAP-Ed.

SNAP-Ed is an obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle program for individuals and families from low-income households. The program partners with thousands of community-based organizations across Illinois to work directly with low-resourced families to help them on their journey to be healthy and stretch their food resources. This is done by people who often live in the same neighborhoods they are working in.

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