Build resilience (cooking, sewing) or meet people over shared interests (art, sports.) This is a great way to build community, defeat burnout, and keep the local economy going. Many classes are sliding scale, support local people, and make great holiday gifts, too!
With all the attention on food shortages due to the government shutdown, folks missed Nov1 changes to SNAP eligibility. While hundreds of thousands will find themselves kicked off, more hundreds of thousands will lose eligibility because they didn’t know they had new reporting requirements. Spread the word, even if you don’t think you know people on SNAP. Every interaction and share tells the algorithms what people care about.
