Over the last month, the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona in Nogales registered 45 new families and individuals – mostly recipients of SNAP benefits who worried the program would come to a halt Nov. 1.

But some of those new registrations belonged to about 10 federal workers who were out of a job amid the U.S. government shutdown, according to Santos Yescas, the food bank’s resource center manager. ×

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