SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Can you live on a food budget of $4.18 a day? That’s the average amount that hundreds of thousands of San Diego County residents receive in the form of CalFresh to help put food on their tables. CalFresh is California’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), one of our…
SAN DIEGO – An estimated 33 percent of San Diego County’s food-insecure households are eligible for, but not enrolled in, CalFresh, an effective anti-hunger program that supplements a household’s food budget. San Diego Hunger Coalition, an organization working to ensure that no one in San Diego County has to go to bed hungry, welcomes the…
When Fox News aired a story last month highlighting Jason Greenslate, a San Diego surfer musician who bought lobster with his CalFresh support (aka food stamps, aka Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP), the response from the right was swift and vicious. Like the relentlessly demonized “welfare mothers” of the 1990s, he was the proof…
