LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Federal workers and community members continue seeking help as financial strain grows amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Emergency food distributions continue to mobilize across the Las Vegas Valley.

Including at Walk Church, working out of Schofield Middle School.

Hundreds of people lined up, each one with their own story to share.

That includes Michael Jackson.

“I was 24. I got shot. My son was only six weeks old when I got shot. I was able to raise him and my daughter and my stepdaughter,” Jackson said.

Twenty-four years later, Jackson finds himself in line, asking for help for the first time.

“It’s hard to ask. I’m grateful for it, but it’s hard for me to ask because I’m always a helper,” Jackson said.

The situation has become even harder as the shutdo

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