Overview
- Roughly 350 boxes of shelf-stable food were handed out at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport as the program began Wednesday.
- Second Harvest Heartland, the Sanneh Foundation and the Metropolitan Airports Commission are partnering to run the distribution.
- Boxes will be available once a week on Wednesdays for federal employees and will continue until paychecks resume, organizers said.
- TSA agents at MSP reported reduced and missed paychecks, with one worker saying an early October check was 80% and later checks were missed.
- Organizers cited an expected near-term suspension of about $72 million in monthly SNAP benefits, noting 440,000 Minnesotans rely on the program and about 180,000 children could be affected.