The past is gone. The future is coming. Take action!
The past is gone. The future is coming. Take action!
We did not see the local government prepared for this, so are posting help here.
Contact us for new or corrected information, such as neighborhood volunteer programs.
Income lost to the community is much more than $300 - $1,500 per account holder because an economy uses those same dollars repeatedly.
Why did EBT stop? The Government shutdown - one side wants to extend the existing healthcare discounts and the other side wants to abolish healthcare discounts entirely. Nearly 14% of Californians rely on CalFresh. According to the state, most of the program’s funding comes from the federal government, meaning benefits will be delayed until the shutdown ends or emergency funds are released.
Tax Changes 2025:
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Food Bank for Monterey County
(831) 758-1523
https://foodbankformontereycounty.org/
https://foodbankformontereycounty.org/food-assistance/
Al & Friends
The meal is served on Sunday mornings from 8:30 a.m. to around 9:30 a.m., rain or shine, at Window on the Bay Park, located along the bike path (across from McDonald's) at
717 Del Monte Ave, Monterey, CA 93940
All In Monterey - see site
https://allinmonterey.org/events
Thomas Carmen Food Pantry in Marina
Located at the Epiphany Lutheran and Episcopal Church (425 Carmel Avenue).
Open Saturdays from 9–11 AM and Tuesdays from 4–6 PM.
And the Marina Library - 190 Seaside Cir.
Offers senior produce pick-up every Thursday from 9:30–10:00 AM at the Community Center (211 Hillcrest Avenue).
A Monterey County Food Bank pantry located in the Shoreline Community Church parking lot. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30–2:00 PM.
DoorDash is launching an "Emergency Food Response" amid the government’s prolonged shutdown, offering SNAP recipients free delivery and waived service fees just as federal assistance is scheduled to run dry.
DoorDash called upon food banks and organizations interested in participating in its response or Project DASH to contact projectdash@doordash.com.
Salvation Army
(831) 899-4988
https://montereypeninsula.salvationarmy.org/monterey_peninsula_corps/cure-hunger/
Gilroy St. Joseph's
(408) 842-6662
To deliver these tax cuts to the top, OBBBA would make the biggest cut to food aid in all of American history, taking meals off the plates of more than two million hungry children. The health care cuts in the bill would mean 22 million people have to pay more for insurance, 15 million lose it entirely, and 51,000 people would actually die, based on careful estimates of what happens when people can’t afford care.
The bill will hurt states and harm towns and cities, reducing the quality of our schools, roads, and safety services. It even sneaks in a special tax shelter for wealthy stockholders, allowing them to make a tidy profit by donating their stocks to private school voucher programs (weakening public schools and public services in the process).
Musk and Trump are now using a fraction of their money and power to take each other down a peg. And while big corporations should pay taxes (Tesla didn’t last year), we probably don’t all have to lose sleep over their public feud. What we should remember is that they’ve already used their immense riches to make our country and our lives much worse.
Here’s the upshot: our tax policies enable people like Musk and Trump to accumulate more wealth than anyone could ever use in a lifetime. They then use it to steer elections and shape public policy to further enrich themselves and others like them. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Enough. Policymakers should reconsider the enormously destructive OBBBA and craft a tax policy similar to when American had a larger more secure middle class.
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