🍞 Nevada yesterday joined a lawsuit to force the federal government to continue funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in November even if the government shutdown continues. Nearly two dozen states and leaders are part of the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. Some help from the state will be available for the nearly 500,000 Nevadans who receive benefits if SNAP isn’t funded. Governor Joe Lombardo said previously. The Food Insecurity Nevada Plan will step in to help those recipients through a mix of contingency funds and emergency work programs, with most of the 38.8 million dollars available going to local food banks. As the Nevada Current reports, not detailed is when the money will be available and if food banks will be able to handle a huge influx of new clients. Food banks have already been struggling with an increase in demand coupled with a loss of federal support. Nevadans receive some 90 million dollars in SNAP benefits every month.
At a press conference regarding grants for charter schools in North Las Vegas yesterday, both Republican Governor Joe Lombardo and Democratic Congressional Representative Susie Lee were in attendance. Following the event, Representative Lee took the chance to address the media to speak on SNAP benefits. Lee, firstly, said it was “cruel” that the Trump administration is allowing the food assistance program to pause at all, pointing out that this would be the first government shutdown where that happens. The congresswoman then added that Governor Lombardo is complicit in the benefits pause for failing to use emergency funds to keep the program operational for Nevadans. Governor Lombardo touted the current stopgap plan involving food banks, and said more encompassing SNAP replacement measures would be illegal.
Approaching the November 1st deadline, the NPR network looked to how the loss of SNAP benefits is effecting states across the country.
🌲 Some 3,000 acres of woodlands in northern Nevada and California’s Placer counties will benefit from a project funded by $8 million in public and private money, KUNR in Reno reports. The goal is to make the forests more resilient while reducing wildfire risk through tree thinning, reforestation, biomass use and prescribed burning. The Nevada and Placer County Collaborative Landscape Resiliency Project brings together public agencies, nonprofits and private landowners. The Martis Camp Community Association contributed $500,000, part of more than $1 million in local matching funds. Dillon Sheedy, a registered forester with Truckee Fire, said residents can expect forest management projects to ramp up through 2026 and 2027.
📉 The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, as policymakers work to shore up the softening job market NPR reports. That would be the Fed's second rate cut in six weeks, after holding rates steady for much of the year in an effort to curb stubborn inflation. Prices are still climbing faster than the central bank would like, but for now, policymakers are more concerned with preventing a big jump in unemployment. A number of prominent corporations have announced job cuts in recent days. Amazon announced plans to cut 14,000 corporate positions. (Amazon is a financial supporter of NPR and pays to distribute some of our content.) Target said last week it's cutting about 1000 corporate jobs and leaving another 800 jobs unfilled. And the federal government cut about 100,000 jobs in the first eight months of the year, with many more workers expected to drop off the federal payroll in October. Read the full story here.
⚾ Blue Jays even World Series with 6-2 win over Dodgers in Game 4. LOS ANGELES — Dodger Stadium was still shaking with joy when Monday turned to Tuesday as the Toronto Blue Jays trudged into their clubhouse. Their 18-inning loss in Game 3 felt like a monumental setback that might have already decided the World Series. That's when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stepped up and told his team exactly what it needed to hear. For all its drama, Game 3 was no more important than Game 4. See the full game rundown here.
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