旧金山—马林食物银行发起请愿：吁国会加强并保护 SNAP 与 CalFresh，500多万加州人靠它把食物端上餐桌
旧金山—马林食物银行近日发起请愿，呼吁公众联署，要求美国国会加强并保护补充营养援助计划（SNAP，在加州称 CalFresh）及粮食安全服务，不要削减这些救命的服务。
该食物银行政策与倡议副主任 Marchon Tatmon 在公开信中说，削减 SNAP 等关键项目，将直接冲击社区里本已难以负担餐费的儿童、长者、残障人士与工薪家庭；加州有500多万人靠 SNAP 与 CalFresh 把食物端上餐桌。他说，联署是「为这500多万人站出来」。
该行表示，其过往的倡议工作已推动提高了 CalFresh 的最低福利水平，并为加州本地出产的农产品争取到资金，但这些来之不易的成果正受到威胁。旧金山—马林食物银行在旧金山与马林县圣拉斐尔（San Rafael）设有服务点，除分发营养食品外，也长期就粮食政策开展倡议。
SF-Marin Food Bank Launches Petition Urging Congress to Strengthen and Protect SNAP and CalFresh
The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank has launched a petition calling on the public to urge the U.S. Congress to strengthen and protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, known as CalFresh in California) and food security services, rather than slash them.
Marchon Tatmon, the food bank's Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy, wrote that cuts to SNAP and other critical programs would directly impact children, seniors, people with disabilities and working families in the community who are already struggling to afford meals, and that more than five million Californians rely on SNAP and CalFresh to keep food on the table. Signing the petition, he said, means standing up for those five million Californians.
The food bank said its past advocacy has helped raise CalFresh minimum benefits and secure funding for California-grown produce, but that those hard-fought wins are under threat. In addition to distributing nutritious groceries from its San Francisco and San Rafael locations in Marin County, the food bank advocates on food policy at every level.
来源：旧金山—马林食物银行
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图片来源：图：食物银行志愿者分装食品（资料图）。美国海军照片，公有领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Volunteers pack food at a food bank (file photo). U.S. Navy photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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