Sequestration cuts could hamper efforts by Cleveland Foodbank
Posted: 7:08 PM
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Foodbank distributes more than 100,000 meals everyday and prepares 10,000 warm meals every day for children.
It also sends a backpack filled with groceries home on Fridays with thousands of school kids, so they have enough food to get them to Monday at school.
Sequester cuts would mean the food bank loses $50,000 in federal funds to handle the food.
Not a ton of money but it's another blow when food supplies for those in need are already dangerously low.
Sequester cuts will also hurt the federal WIC program which helps women, infants and children.
That means more demand from families turning to food banks.
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