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The Trump administration has a new plan to get "healthy" food to low-income seniors, but an anti-hunger advocate fears many will miss out.
EVANGELINE PARISH (KATC) — Food and commodity boxes for seniors in Evangeline Parish won't be making it to the pantry this month. Originally scheduled for neighborhood delivery on Thursday ...
Many of the seniors are on low fixed incomes and depend on the once-a-month food pickup, with boxes paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through its Commodity Supplemental Food Program ...
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program works to improve the health of qualified applicants. Commodities are distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
food boxes, which it says would be filled with healthy produce and other commodities sourced from farmers and given directly to American households. MAHA references Health and Human Services ...
funding for the program — called the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) — would be cut, and seniors instead would receive what the Trump administration is calling "MAHA food boxes ...