There are 3 article(s) tagged food pantry:

• October 2025

  • City provides $500,000 to help offset loss of SNAP benefits

    City gives $500,000 to help provide food after federal government shutdown cancels or delays SNAP benefits for November

    By Jody Callahan October 30, 2025

  • With SNAP benefits halted, Memphis food pantries struggle to feed those in need

    “I’m seeing just continual calls at the reception desk for people asking about food pantries,” said Russell Walker of St. John’s Church. “It’s continuous. I got in this morning at 7:30, and they’ve been continuous since then.”

    By Jody Callahan October 29, 2025

• February 2021

  • Opinion: Lent, fasting and raising the minimum wage

    During this Lent, the Prophet Isaiah’s strident call — given in God’s name — asks us to do our fasting by “releasing those bound unjustly.” May that perspective lead us in our national debate on raising, for the first time in 12 years, our federal minimum wage.

    By Val Handwerker February 23, 2021