ST PAUL, Minn. — It's hard to keep track of what’s happening with funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but food shelves say the need is piling up.

“People need to eat, people need to eat and that’s it, it’s as simple as that, it’s a bottom line. We need lawmakers to figure it out. We need them to get on the same page,” said Angelica Klebsch with Second Harvest Heartland.

She was volunteering at Nourish Food Shelf in St. Paul on Saturday morning.

“We are a community-based food shelf here. We’re serving Frogtown and Rondo areas and we are in one of the most insecure food areas in the East Metro,” said Andrea Thomas, executive director of Nourish Food Shelf at Mount Olivet Lab School.

In two hours, they served nearly 300 people.

“Families and individuals ar

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