Tribes’ ability to feed families, provide child welfare services threatened under second-longest government shutdown in history

“Every day without funding stretches social workers and law enforcement thin, putting vulnerable children in danger,” said Marisa Cummings, a citizen of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and a tribal consultant with 20 years of experience in federal policy and advocacy.
Starting Nov. 1, millions of people may not receive their food stamps benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP. Also frozen: the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; Head Start preschool funding; and Women, Infants and Children subsidies as the federal government heads toward a “fiscal cliff.”