Mending the Net: Federal cuts have frayed Santa Cruz's safety net. Can the community hold it together?
Mending the Net
Federal cuts have frayed the Santa Cruz County safety net. Can the community hold it together? Each episode of this is five-part series will explore how a sector of Santa Cruz County's safety net was impacted by funding changes brought by H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
After the biggest cut to SNAP in the program's history, Erica Padilla-Chavez, the CEO of Second Harvest, expects to see "pandemic level" demand at Santa Cruz County's food bank.