SNAP

The city of Ann Arbor’s $564 million budget for fiscal 2024 Fiscal Year passed at Monday night’s city council meeting. As WEMU’s Josh Hakala reports, the newly approved spending plan includes some amendments.

When the pandemic hit and we shut down, those living paycheck-to-paycheck suddenly faced the prospect of going hungry. But federal money was dedicated to providing a safety net. Many of those additional benefits have now ended, and not everyone is back to work and on their financial feet. So what now? Locally, an emergency food fund was established, and that program will continue as benefits for the SNAP assistance program drop. Markell Miller is director of Community Food Programs at Food Gatherers in Ann Arbor. She joined WEMU's David Fair to share the ongoing efforts to keep people fed.

The additional federal money that was sent to Michiganders who received SNAP benefits during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is ending. WEMU's Josh Hakala reports.

It started last October. More than 70 police officers, special agents, and government officials executed search warrants on each of the seven Catholic…

About 50 farmers markets across Michigan are at risk of losing their ability to offer SNAP benefits, formerly food stamps, to customers. The company that…