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Emergency funds for Second Harvest Food Bank, how the shutdown is impacting UCSC and CSUMB

KAZU | By Elena Neale-Sacks
Published November 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM PST
A woman wearing a wrist watch, black shirt, black pants and apron covered with purple grapes and green vines rests a blue cloth bag on a stack of cardboard boxes filled with partially covered orange carrots.
Eduardo Gonzales-Torres
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KAZU News
At Second Harvest Food Bank in Watsonville.

In today's newscast, Santa Cruz County supervisors weigh whether to approve $500,000 in emergency funds for Second Harvest Food Bank amid SNAP upheaval. And, how the federal government shutdown has impacted local universities.
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Elena Neale-Sacks
Elena is an Emmy award-winning researcher, reporter, and producer. Before joining KAZU, they worked as a podcast producer at The Oregonian. Their reporting and research has been featured on NPR, KQED, Netflix, Reveal, CalMatters, and more. Elena is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz. You can reach them at elena@kazu.org.
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