• Food stamps unavailable in Arizona from Nov. 1, impacting 900,000 people • Federal government shutdown halts funding for SNAP benefits nationwide • Gov. Katie Hobbs requests local retailers and grocers to donate food

With nearly 900,000 Arizonans facing the loss of food stamps as of Nov. 1, state officials have been scrambling to prepare already-strained food pantries for the upcoming holiday surge.

The increase in demand follows the announcement that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more colloquially known as food stamps or SNAP, will not be able to provide continued assistance to its 42 million users nationally amid the federal government shutdown.

“It’s especially cruel to do this in November, the month of Thanksgiving, of course, when our forefathers came togethe

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