{"id":7238,"date":"2025-10-18T03:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7238\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:03:17","slug":"manhattan-food-pantry-sees-spike-in-military-families-seeking-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7238\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan food pantry sees spike in military families seeking assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan-based non-profit is asking for extra support as it sees an influx of military families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Flint Hills Breadbasket says it is seeing a major spike in families of military and government employees. Those families have made up 35 percent of families seeking assistance for the first time this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Fort Riley said many of its 5,600 civilian employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/10\/01\/ks-army-employees-not-permitted-work-during-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/10\/01\/ks-army-employees-not-permitted-work-during-government-shutdown\/\">were furloughed<\/a> at the beginning of the shutdown, without giving an exact number. The government shutdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/10\/17\/federal-government-shutdown-hits-17th-day-negotiations-stall\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/10\/17\/federal-government-shutdown-hits-17th-day-negotiations-stall\/\">reached its 17th day<\/a> Friday after multiple failed votes throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">If you\u2019d like to help, you ca find a donation link on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FlintHillsBreadbasket\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FlintHillsBreadbasket\/\">Flint Hills Breadbasket Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan-based non-profit is asking for extra support as it sees an influx of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6419,6422,6105,6423,6424,1070,6420,6418,4669,2564,75,84,83,661,9,24,63,6421],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-assistance","tag-breadbasket","tag-families","tag-flint-hills","tag-flint-hills-breadbasket","tag-food","tag-food-insecurity","tag-fort-riley","tag-government-employees","tag-government-shutdown","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-military","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}