{"id":41864,"date":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41864\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","slug":"fresno-city-council-awards-central-california-food-bank-250k-amid-government-shutdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41864\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno City Council awards Central California Food Bank $250K amid government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno&#8217;s City Council voted unanimously today to allocate $250,000 to the Central California Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding aims to assist families facing food insecurity in wake of the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The partnership with the Central California Food Bank will bolster local efforts to ensure continuous access to nutritious food across Fresno neighborhoods most affected by the SNAP benefit disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding will provide 1 million meals to families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since November 1 and the expiration of SNAP benefits, the food bank says website traffic has gone up 300 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno&#8217;s City Council voted unanimously today to allocate $250,000 to the Central California Food Bank. The funding aims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1610,3400,112,114,113,638,28191],"class_list":["post-41864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-city-council","tag-food-insecurity","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-government-shutdown","tag-nutritious-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}